well this week has been great wheather wise and eggs the last few days I have been getting massive eggs :o that won't even fit in the egg carton and will not close, wednesday I got 12 eggs thursday I got 13 and today I got 15 eggs and some were just huge, which chicken would be laying these...
HI AGAIN,
I have been seeing over the past couple of days that my birds, are opening their mouths and going up and down, all day long ? could it be because they are thristy, they have lots of water. ???
My hens started to lay eggs on August the 14th and now its the 27 and still only getting 7-10 eggs a day, I have different kinds of chickens, they were all born on the same day, and all the combs and wattles are red. and all of them are squatting ? maybe couple more weeks before they all start...
ashytle: when I had a very sick baby chick, I mixed medicated chick starter and mixed it in a small bowl, and made it into oalmeal, (more water) just very runny. hope it feels better.
here is what I use I made it the last couple of days. I put a clip on lock so no coons or any animals get in, I put a tarp over top so no rain get in and it is on a slight slope so that the grain can slide down to the bottom.
Hi again,
for next year I want to get a blue egg layer chicken is there just one kind of layer or is there different kinds, any help would be appreciated.
it happened to me a couple of years ago, I had 8 hens, I went out on a winter cold day, and from the day before I got 8 eggs then the next morning there was 11 eggs and could not believe my eyes.
I have I think 6 different kinds of brown egg laying birds, but yesterday I got a white egg, from one of the birds, I do have white birds, but they have red earlobes and should be laying brown eggs, but maybe just a fluke or not?
I went down to the coop this morning and got 5 medium size eggs, since I have been only getting 6-8- eggs over the past 5 days someone new has started to lay some eggs, and went back to the coop at 2:00 and got another 5 eggs, and the day is not over yet so my chances of getting more eggs are...
well I am making the ground wet and there has been no foxes here for a few days now. hope he don't come back, or he knows he will get another blow to the head.
I am new to hatching eggs, and have no clue how to, I have been rasing chickens for quiet a few years now and want to hatch my own eggs, I will be using a rooster to do it, not an incubator. can anyone guide me step by step to hatch eggs.
any info would be greatly appreciated.
Hi again,
I went down to the birds this morning and seen that there was 6 eggs in some of the nesting boxes, I had to a bunch of chores first I went and did them and came back 15 minutes later, when I was gathering the eggs I seen one in a nest box that was broken, I quickly took it out and and...
Well yesterday I went some magonay plywood and some fiberglass insulation, I went down to the hen house and and basically did the whole thing in about 6 hours, I really started to feel the heat when I was in there, now the coop looks a lot smaller, I will go and the some pics.