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I know I checked on the weekend and all I found were my daily yield of 3 eggs from my four 9-month-old easter eggers. My frizzled cochin had layed her first egg the day before. Then the weather grew very hot and the yield fell to 1 or two a day. But 4 black copper marans hatched the same day...

I have no idea what it means but one of my 13 week old easter eggers started it with me today. She comes up from behind and flies onto my shoulders. She is one of six young ee hens and is the most aggressive of my hens, including 5months old BCMarans. She started it when I began paying special...

I have a 9 months old active penedesenca rooster who has 22 hens to amuse him. He is as active as usual in spite of a High Heat Warnings. He was fine three days ago when we were in the upper 90's and my Penny layer is giving me eggs at least every other day. The black streaks appeared on the...

I also mist the roofs of the coops.It seems to help.

As for the silkies, it may be a mix of the stress of the move and horrible 98-102 degree heat. They never did use a nesting box and did not hide their eggs. The Penny and the 3 Orpies use the nesting box, but not the one they used before. I checked the old coop this AM and saw there was no...

I have a flock that includes eight layers and 15 pullets who will be five months old mid-month. I keep one penedesenca rooster who is reasonably well behaved for a roo. They live in a shared chicken yard, roughly 20 x 18, in which there are four separate coop structures. The silkies were all...

My Orpington layers do not fly above the roof of their coop. My EE pullets do fly. My Penedesenca juveniles can escape anything,but my Penny layer does not. Do chickens outgrow their ability to fly as they gain body weight? Otherwise I am going to have to buy an aviary.

I have a silkie cockerel named Blackie who is 6 months old, the sole surviver of a poor hatching. I also had penedescena chicks all of which turned out to be roos. I kept my pennie roos and Blackie separate. Then when a more recent brood of silkies were ready for the great outdoors,I let them...

I am new at this and I made mistakes. My neophite husband ordered hatching eggs on ebay--pendesencas and silkies. Since he is bedridden, I became the conscripted chicken lady. At first I was livid, but when the first eggs hatched, I became a dedicated chicken person. Of the first batch of 11...