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...
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.
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...
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...
I just came into the door after going down to my chickens to see what all the noise was about, then I saw :o: :o a big fox 2 feet away from me, he seen me and ran to the other way towards the bushes, I got my hockey stick and ran after him, but got too far into the bushes. he has been here a few...
well last night wasn't a good night I was tossing and turnig all over, I had a dream about the chickens that they were getting way too big for the chicken coop and needed a bigger space, so I put 3 chickens in a pen each so it would not be so crowded then the unthinkable comes and I forgot to...
Hello again,
here are some pics of my coop in the backyard by the garden, hope you like.
here is a pic of the new nesting boxes (almost done)
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e369/BIRD_B/DSCI0079-1.jpg
here is a pic of the finished nesting boxes with some nice paint
here is a pic, of the...
Hi again I have just built some new egg nesting boxes, that are attached to the side of the coop, and too my wonder my hens are pretty smart, on thursday when I was almost done making the nest boxes, I came in the next morning and there was the first egg in the nesting box, that had no fake eggs...
HI I am new to the board and just saying hello, I have 30 hens right now which are all different kinds, I got my first egg on monday, and got two this morning.
MY hens
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e369/BIRD_B/DSCI0080.jpg
working on making pernament nesting boxes...