We seem to have a precocious hen. We weren't expecting eggs until around August, but we've had two this week. We think the banty might be older than the reds, and that she's the culprit. The eggs are very pale beige. Oh, and we named our flock! Garnet is the banty, and thank you to the poster...
Great idea about trimming a single wing.
On one side of us, we have gated town homes, and the closest house has three small dogs (three! in a townhome! argh!), they leave the window open so that the dogs can bark at everything that comes by, out of sheer boredom. So no danger there, at least...
I have been casually browsing this forum for years, but never registered because I didn't think I'd ever take the plunge. I'm not handy enough to build a coop on my own and just didn't think I wanted to take on the responsibility by myself. But it turns out that my housemates loved the idea of a...