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The eggs are from our hens. The girls have a good crumbles feed (19% crude protein) available during the day, lots of clean water, pumpkins, melon rinds and seeds and the occasional gut sack from butchering our own meat rabbits and all the bugs they can catch. They also have grit and oyster...

We have always bought Buff Orps chicks through a poultry supplier before so we've always raised 25 chicks at a time. We recently bought an incubator and have started hatching our own as we are now looking at just replacement chicks to keep the flock at a particular quantity. Yeah, we are doing...

Yesterday I noticed one of my hens (she is about 7 months old) is limping/hopping and not really using her left leg to walk. Her tail is down and she just sits unless I walk over to her and then she'll do the limp/hop shuffle to move away. Easy to catch as I can walk faster than she can...

Cats run back inside in order to share. They are making a wonderful creation, creative, artistic and they must put it in the most appropriate place so everyone can enjoy and experience the wonder of their travail. Ask me how I know, I dare you, just ask me, or anyone of the many cats

Thinking about getting some Emden geese this spring and rather than get the geese and then find out how to raise the darlings I thought it would be good to read basic geese care first. Any of you goose owners care to recommend a good basic book or two? We already have chickens, 31 Buff Orp...

I'm not talking about slipping fertile eggs under a broody. My broody hen successfully hatched one egg on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Since then she and the peep have been in a chicken wire run (4' x 10') inside the chicken yard so the peep is protected from the older hens (who don't seem real...

I have 5 Buff Oph hens and one rooster. They are all the same age, one year old April 6. One has gone broody for the second time while the other four have not gone broody at all. Is there some way to make a hen go broody or will she go broody when the time is right? Could the four never go...

Oh I DO understand. My chickens plot all day and night long as to how many times a day they can cause me to dash out to the coop. Wicked, wicked chickens. The worst part is hearing the snickers and laughter when I return to my house empty handed. They are hording their eggs. They like to...

Thank you Ridgerunner!! Lots of very helpful information in your reply.

I'm sorry if this has been asked a zillion times before, but... how long does a rooster need to be with the hens in order to have fertile eggs? I have five Buff Op ladies who are pining for their hansome gent who was banished to Goatie Oatie Acres (across the fence) for behavior unbecoming a...

Amethyste; Thank you very much for greatly appreciated help. The birds are now on layer crumbles and the difference is amazing! Before they were Ethiopian chickens: scrawny and fast running. They'd peck at anything that came within pecking distance, hands, feet, pant legs. Now they are very...

We are new to chickens and got our birds this April. The salesman said to feed them chick starter for the first bag and then they would be old enough to eat scratch. The birds are "reds". We bought 7, and ended up with 3 roosters and 4 hens. They seem very active. We butchered one of the...