Search results for query: *

I'm not sure what happened. She died.

Yesterday I found my 1-year old barred rock laying underneath the hanging feeder yesterday. Her eyes were closed. She is a pretty feisty chicken and she never allows anyone to pet her. She allowed me to pick her up and proceeded to just lay in my lap. I picked up some electrolyte powder from...

Thanks everyone. The oyster shell seemed to do the trick. I also had another layer give her first egg today and it had a hard shell. Yay!! Now the only one I'm waiting for is my Black Star..... Ironic... I thought she'd lay first. :)

The egg on the left was laid 2 days ago and the egg on the far right laid today. The egg in the middle is a store bought egg. I have 3 pullets and I know 1 is laying. She's a New Hampshire. I thought my Black Star was laying because she exhibits all the signs but haven't seen anything from...

Thanks! :)

Well today I put wooden eggs in the nesting boxes and gave the girls some yogurt with meal worms this morning. A couple days ago I added apple cider vinegar to the water and put oyster shell out as well. And this afternoon.....

Well I haven't found an egg in the past couple days. However, pretty sure my barred rock laid one yesterday or is getting close. She spent 30 minutes in the nest box but no egg. Then as I was cleaning my coop yesterday, I raked up what looked like an egg shell from the floor of the run. My new...

I have an update... I've had another egg since the last one that was laid at night or super early this morning. I typically close the girls into the coop at night and open it around 7am. Well the egg was laid on the coop floor and the yolk had been eaten. The shell was slightly harder but still...

Currently I'm feeding my chickens Nutrena Natures Own Layer Crumbles. After doing some research online I've seen some people complain about thin egg shells. I have one girl that is laying out of my 3. She's only laid 2 eggs but they were both rubber eggs. Out of curiosity, are all layer feeds...

Thanks for your response. Kind of worried about them starting to eat them.. Don't want egg eaters. :) Will doing it now contribute to egg eaters?

Hi Everyone, One of my hens has started laying eggs. I found one a couple nights ago in the nesting box.. Was thrilled! The chicken laid pretty late in the evening and I found the egg when I went to close up the coop for the evening. It was below her in the nesting box. The egg was a rubber egg...

Update.... They're going into the coop on their own now. They're in by the time it's dark and all I need to do is shut the coop door. Yay!

Thanks, I wasn't sure about the barred rock because the redness on her face is much more pronounced then the other two.

This is from a week and a half ago...

I bought these almost a week and a half ago and the breeder said they were between 6-10 weeks old. I believe they are on the younger side because they were smaller. I'm noticing some red on the barred rock.. Here's a photo from today....

Thank you! :)

I didn't see anything like that.... It's in the 50's here.. Could it be too cold? They have been with us since Saturday so only a few days really. We got them on Saturday.

My 6 week--- almost 7 week old chickens seem to be spending a lot of time in the coop during the day; they literally go in there and cuddle together at noon. :) however, they never go up into the coop at night. I have a coop with an attached run that we will be expanding soon. This evening...

Thanks for your help. We are now completely redoing our plans. We're moving the coop and will be building a covered run that will be approximately 8x4 so give roughly 32 square feet in the run. They're currently about 6-8 weeks old. How long do you think we have to redo the coop? My husband...

Oh man.... I really wish I would've done more research before getting that coop... We just got it... :/