One of my Australorp hens is looking a little thin so i weighed her and she is 4 pounds. She is the biggest eater in the flock! Is 4 pounds normal? She is about 2 years old and she doesn't have worms.
I have two pekin ducks and both lay everyday and have for the past few weeks and when they don't i look all through the henhouse. But this morning there were three duck eggs! Is it possible for a duck to lay two eggs a day?
I also love a colorful egg basket( or coffee can!). new customers are always so amazed when they get eggs for the first time and see all the colors! One of them made some sort of art picture out of the blue egg shells! Lol!
They will probably lay olive eggs! I had a beautiful hen that was 50% easter egger, 25% leghorn and 25% production red( i think). She layed a white egg with a pale blue tint! She was white with blue legs and had some blackish blue feathers on her back! she died years ago but i still have her...
I've never heard of that before! I dont think she ate it though, there was probably something in the bottom she was pecking. Oddly enough my flock doesn't like tomatoes anymore! They used to slip through the fence and get in the garden to peck every tomato that was starting to turn! Now, 100s of...
I have alot of chickens but not very many of one breed. I want to incubate about 40 eggs next year and to be able to get that many good eggs in a week I'll have to cross breed. I'm curious to see what I'll get! What do you think would make an interesting mix? I'm definitely going to breed my...
Whats the funniest thing your chickens have ever done? One of my red sex links pecked the bottom out of a styrofoam bowl and some how managed to get it over her head and was walking around with it on her neck! I about died of laughter!
I have three young cockerels. 1 is about 7 months 2 are three months. I noticed the 2 fighting when they were about 9 weeks but i haven't seen them do it in a long time so i think they got it worked out. I saw the 7 month old and one of the 3 month olds fighting a few days ago so i grabbed the 3...
It's windy here so their feathers are blowing everywhere! The hens are the red one in the back and the brownish one. The rooster wouldn't get out of the picture!
( forgot to add that what you see them doing in the picture is what they do all day long)
I have 2 easter egger hens that are almost 7 months and are not laying yet. They get scraps, scratch, whole corn and laying pellets. They always have fresh clean water. I have a large chicken pen but they trampled the grass down so i let the flock in my backyard. For some reason the 2 Easter...
I have three Barred Rocks and noticed they were growing slower then my other chicks so i made a thread about it. People said they might be bantam Barred Rocks. I got them from Rural King and the sign above the tub just said " Barred Rocks". The smallest one weighs about 1 pound and they are...