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Following up on the post by NAMBLE. I have 9 RIR chicks that are 6 weeks old. Two of them have very prominent combs and are larger than their siblings. They are also a little more agressive than the others. Is this a good sign their cockerals? Any help is appreciated. thanks

Thanks folks. I appreciate your input. I've gotten somewhat attached to Ernest and don't want anything to happen to him.

My RIR rooster is 7 months old and seems to be healthy. In the last two or three days I've noticed a change in the coloration of his legs. He is starting to get a reddish/orange tint on the lower part of his legs from about where the spurs start down to the area between the toes. His legs are...

My wife and I bought the Little Giant w/egg turner and fan a couple of months ago and just hatched our first batch of eggs without any undue problems. We have hatched 9 out of 12 eggs in the past day and a half and are waiting on the other three to show up. I think it important to use the...

I kept the same bedding as before. The only difference is the shavings were a little finer than in the previous bag. All my birds lay between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm each day. I was thinking one of the hens couldn't or wouldn't wait for her favorite nest to be empty or didn't like having two or...

Anybody out there?

My RIR hens have been laying for 4 or 5 weeks now with no problem. I have had only three jelly eggs with 12 hens and figured all was going well. One day last week I got two eggs on the coop floor instead of in the nest boxes. I didn't think much about it at the time but for the past two days...

Junkmanme, How old is too old? I still like to climb up a tree and hunt a deer. I still like to walk behind a pack of beagles when they have a rabbit up and sit in a duck blind freezing my ****'s off. It's all mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. BTW, I'm 58 years young...

This post is for you folks around the Chapel Hill, N.C. area that are using Purina Layena for your birds. I went to Piedmont Feed Center on Hwy 54 West of Chapel Hill this a.m. and found out they had reduced their feed costs to compete with the TSC's in the area. TSC is carrying Purina Layena...

I have just finished my first hands on treatment for lice /mites. I used a product from Adams called tick,flea and lice treatment for puppies. It's all I could find made by Adams at Wal-Mart, but it did have pyrethrin. Will it be effective? I sprayed under each wing, near the vent, and...

I have used Purina exclusively since I got my RIR's this past May and have had good success with it. My birds started laying at 24 weeks (about 2 weeks ago) and the eggs have been outstanding. I have 12 hens and right now they are 10-12 eggs a day. I've had only two eggs with very thin shells...

Although I haven't seen obvious signs of lice or mites on my RIR's I'd like to do a preemptive strike on the critters. My question is whether or not to use the tried and true way of dusting each bird with poultry dust after they've gone to the roost or using the Frontline spray I've seen...

Thanks for the info gritsar.

My RIR hens are just starting to lay. I got an egg this morning that had some blood on the outside of the shell. Otherwise it was a nice medium/large egg with a good shell. The egg may have come from a first timer. Is the blood on the shell normal for new layers? Just need to know if this...

What men have said for centuries. Pulleeeeeese, pulleeeeeese, pretty pulleeeeese!

Thanx. I managed to stumble thru it, I think!

One of the ladies finally put me out of my misery and laid an honest to goodness egg! My wife told me all along that if I wanted anything from a female I needed to beg. Guess she was right all along

I finally convinced one of my hens to lay a real honest to goodness egg and can't fiure out how to get the picture on the forum. I've managed to upload it but can't get it attatched to my post. If this isn't the correct posting site please forgive me. I'm a computer challenged old man.

Thanks folks. I think I'll change over to a scratch with some grains in it. I appreciate all of your input.

I spoke with the man I got my RIR's from the other day and in general conversation he told me he never gives his layers cracked corn as scratch because it slows down the egg production. He feeds only laying pellets to his laying hens. I give my hens (12 of them) a 12 ounce cup of cracked corn...