We have three chickens that started laying about two months ago and though their laying has been on a slightly irregular schedule , our girls have been laying in the nesting box the entire time. But for the past 2-3 days we believe our one chicken, Adrian, has been laying her eggs in the run. We...
This is our first winter having chickens and we have a few questions about caring for our three girls during the winter.
#1: We have heard that some chicken's egg production can stop during the winter. We have one Buff Orpington and two Easter eggers. We understand that our BO could lay...
We have 3 chickens and are wondering how we can get them to stay up in the coop at night. The funny thing is that they are laying in
the nesting box which proves they can and do go up there but for some reason they stay and sleep down in the run at night.
We have tried to shut them in the coop...
I have one buff orpington and 2 easter eggers. We have collected 8 eggs from them in the past 2 weeks. They have been laying an egg almost every other day. We were wondering if you had any ideas on how we can tell which chickens are laying and ,if the case may be, which are not.
All 8 of the...
We have a few questions:
1. We 1 Buff Orpington and 2 Americanas - AND THEY JUST LAID ONE EGG (we are not sure which one laid it :) Any clues how many eggs we might start expecting?
2. What is the difference between Americanas, Americaunas, and Easter Eggers?
3. We want to start having...
We are a family in NJ and are very excited to join Backyard Chickens, which has been a source of SO MUCH information since we got our chickens in March!
Thank you for all of your helpful information!