Thanks, and let me know how it works with the collar. Parsley was my favorite from the beginning and I'm super bummed having to think about letting her go:/
Meet Daisy (left) and Parsley (right).
They are both Easter Eggers. Originally we had thought Daisy was a rooster. I had even made a post last week and everyone on this site seemed to confirm my thoughts. This is one of the pictures I posted.
We've been noticing that Parsley has been...
My RIR, Olive laid her first egg last Thursday. It was soft shelled so we got rid of it. We change their food to layer feed and gave them some oyster shells in another dish to eat as they please. We were very excited to find another egg Sunday- a real egg!! It was small, but indeed a real nice...
When we got them, we were told they were 7-8 weeks old.. so at this point they would be 11 or 12 weeks...but they seemed so much older and bigger when we got them.
The pictures i posted above were from when we first got them(4 weeks ago). They have gotten bigger and now have waddles. Here's a picture of Lucy taken yesterday...
So we got two chickens from a friend of a friend. We're first time chicken owners and are currently raising 5 other baby chicks. This evening, to our surprise, one of our older girls must have laid an egg sometime during the day. Im guessing the girls must have pecked at the egg some, but the...