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I came home today, and it turns out that my girls have been laying for the past two weeks or so. I have two hens, and with today's egg, I've got 12 total right now. I feel guilty for not checking earlier.... (during the winter, their food and water gets moved outside for convenience.) So...

[This isn't a chicken question, but I figured I'd get the reply faster here anyways] NOTE: I am not an adult, so keep that in mind! My friend is on vacation for a couple weeks, so I'm taking care of her hamster while she's away. Today I realized the the bag of hamster food she gave me is...

Oh gosh, what do I do? This morning I saw 3 mourning doves in my yard--two parents and a fledgling(I think?). The baby doesn't appear to be able to fly, but it's decently feathered. It's the offspring of the other two for sure--it follows them around and I've seen them feeding it(pigeon milk...

I have two hens, Kevin and Jalapeno. Yesterday, while I was feeding them some banana, I decided I wanted a chicken kiss! So I loosely held a piece of banana in my mouth and offered it to them. Having never tried this, they were a bit wary at first. After a while, Kevin reached out and took...

Don't worry; this isn't a "when will my pullets lay??" question. It's similar, though. I have two EE's, about 10 months old now. One started laying at the end of July, the other started early September. Now, here's my question. The one that started stopped for the winter quite early, late...

We only have two EE's for our small family, one of who is not laying at all, the other who lays about every other day now. Since we had company over for Thanksgiving, my mom asked me to scramble some (store-bought) eggs to use in the fried rice. Sure, no problem. So I head on over to the...

Can chickens have raw soybean sprouts? I know they can't have the beans, but what about the sprouts? The package says not to eat them raw, but I've eaten a couple raw ones before with no problems. Hey, they taste good!

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I have two EE's, and they are less than a year old. Neither are molting noticeably, but I'm sure they are a bit. However, I thought that first-year layers don't slow down too much. I had been getting usually 3 eggs every 2 days from them, but now I only get an egg a day(not always), and...

Title says it all. Do you mix your own or buy it from the feed store? This is a place where we can compare. I buy mine from the feed store. I forgot the names of the seeds in it, but they are very common in birdseed, etc. I also find the occasional stalk of some kind of plant, but very...

There's been a shooting this morning, and we're not allowed to go to school because they haven't caught the gunman yet.

I have two pullets, one of whom I'm trying to break off of laying on the poop board. If I leave it there, she lays there. If I take it out, she lays in the nest. However, I don't want to always have to take it out everyday, and put it back at night. Today I left it back on, and she laid on...

It's about 7:30 at night, and I go out to give my two girls some pellets and scratch(as treats). All of a sudden I hear a clatter of claws....I look up at the roof(I live in the city) and see a hawk staring down at me and my chickens! I throw the rest of the food in my hand in it's general...

I have two EE pullets. One laid her first egg yesterday, her second today. The other has been laying for a month now. The one that started first lays in the nestbox. She laid her first eggs under the BBQ grill, but we moved them to the box and she lays in there now. She's not the one with...

Oh my gosh! Those chickens! I have two EE pullets, Kevin and Jalapeño. Kevin started laying end of July. Today, I came home to see if Kevin had laid me another egg...indeed she did. Then my gaze shifted to the left, and I gasped in horror at the sight of a knocked-over waterer and wet...

How do I know if they can handle pellets or not? I have two EE pullets, 23 weeks old. One has been laying since 19 weeks, I don't THINK the other one is laying yet. We get about 3 light green eggs every 4 days, and have never gotten more than one egg in one day. On top of that, my mom and I...

Sadly, no pictures for you guys. Even worse, I'm not at home. And won't be for another 3 weeks. My mom has been taking care of my 2 EE's while I'm at my dad's for the summer. She called today to tell me she found 2 eggs! They were under the BBQ grill(no longer used) that they like to...

Just in case someone else really needed a solution. NOTE: Only works if you have a small amount of waterers, or a LOT of time on your hands. My 1-gallon plastic waterer got algae in the swirly part that keeps the base and jar together. UGH. Water won't wash it out because the entrance in...

So...how do you tell the difference between bloody poops and poops with intestinal lining in them? The poop chart only has one picture of bloody poo, and it's blurry. More pictures would be very helpful, or just hints at how to tell.

It's a roo! I'm telling you, it's a rooster! My mom thinks it /could/ be a hen, but I still think it's a roo. About 10 weeks old right now: When will he start showing rooster behaviors? I'm not seeing any of letting the ladies eat first, bringing them food, etc. In fact, he's the one...