I've had backyard chickens for 2+ years now, and I was introduced to the idea of supplementing light in the winter to increase egg production at my son's science fair of all places. One of his classmates measured egg production with and without light -- pretty interesting!
So, our first...
New to chickens here. We adopted four chicks who hatched from eggs in my son's kindergarten classroom in mid-March. They're about 13 weeks old now, and we're trying to answer the eternal chicken question -- cockerel or pullet?
The mottled one is Fluffy
The golden one with black tail is...