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I love this thread! :) Here's a funny egg that one of my EE's laid

Quick set up: This last month we got an 8 week old German Shepard puppy. Puppies have to go outside every hour to use the bathroom, etc. I haven't been able to let my 6 girls out much to roam or interact with them as much as usual for the last month. I typically would always reach down and give...

Thank you so much for the replies! Sorry for my delay in getting back, I have 3 little kids and 2 of them got sick, ugh! I love the information about putting the deep litter into the run to let it finish composting! I'm definitely going to do that! You're right, I can see the chickens having a...

This is my first year with chickens and I have a few buckets full of chicken poop scrapped off the poop board that are covered in sweet PDZ. I am unsure how to compost this effectively. I would like to add it to my garden, but I don't want to burn all the roots with high nitrates. What's the...

You know, feather shaft so far seems to make the most sense. Like maybe a feather shaft that was broken more so on the front half of their body than the back half. The blood spatter on the ground was in front of the roost bar (it kind of looks like it's sitting underneath the bar in the picture...

Seems odd, right? There is likely something that I'm missing but nothing showing yet. It's all new to me. That's pretty wild. Sounds very similar!

Thanks for the quick reply bantamlover. I went out and rechecked right after you replied. Everything looked okay. Tried checking all their feet, everything seemed okay, although it's been muddy with all the rain, the lighting wasn't the best with the sun setting. I went out this morning and...

Hello, I am new to chickens and I will try to give you most all of the info that I can think of. These are my first girls; I have 7 hens. They are all almost 9 months old. I live in Michigan, it's winter time and one of them is molting. She's been molting for about a month. Just mentioning this...

Great info, thanks!

Now that I double check, my EE's are 9 months old (same for the buff orps). I got them at the end of April 2016. They were great layers. I will definitely try the extra protein and hope that gets them back into the swing of things.

Awesome, thanks for this! I had started to save my egg shells to bake/grind up as a calcium supplement. Is that something you'd recommend, or just stick with the oyster shells?

It's definitely fun finding out the colors of the eggs! My kids found the first one (a blue egg) in their play house outside. It was a HUGE deal for them, hehe! Needless to say I kept them in the run/coop for a couple days after that to train her. When they start submissively squatting you'll...

Interesting, thanks for the insight. Anything in particular that you'd recommend for more protein?

Surprisingly to me, my EE's started laying a month before my buff orpingtons. My EE's started laying at 6 months and the buffs at almost 7 months. I love my pink, blue and green eggs from the EEs :) (And of course the brown ones from the buffs:D)

Hello! This has puzzled me the last couple weeks, my Easter eggers all stopped laying a couple weeks ago, I have 4 of them. I have 3 buff Orpingtons who are laying everyday, still getting 3 eggs a day in the winter from them. They are all 8 months old. Are EE's known to not produce at all in...

Thanks for the reply and confirmation on EE's, too!

Thank's for the welcome, Folly's Place :) These two were slow at feathering in, and are showing signs of a red/pink comb. I am assuming that these might be Easter Eggers, but I am not certain. Chicken 1: Chicken 2:

Hello, I have been lurking for a couple of months reading and learning. Today I decided to create an account. I have a question - I have some 5 week old Ameraucana's and half of their comb's are turning pink (one is definitely red). Should I assume that these are Cockerels? Or is it silly to...