I'm certain. The two that died were both Easter Eggers and were laying green eggs. We were bummed we weren't going to get anymore green eggs but the green eggs kept coming. Unless there's a chicken ghost laying them :lau
I have a 4 chicken flock which is lower than the 6 I had a few weeks ago. One got eaten and one disappeared. We fixed the problem by spotlighting the coop at night. Anyways we have a golden laced Wyandotte, a white orphington, a black australorp (who we don't think she's laying anymore as she is...
Holy crap where do I start! I havent been on here since 2016! So just today my BO died :( and that was pretty sad. I still have two more old lady's and I got four new ones this spring. I also got some beehives this spring and that was pretty cool. Gosh where has the time gone it feels like just...
Try to train them to lay in the boxes. My Australorp was laying in the nesting boxes for 3 eggs, then she laid them in the corner for the other 3 eggs. What I would do is keep putting them in the nesting boxes so they get used to using them. Also, mix the shavings around so they cant make a...
Ive been trying to figure out whos been laying all of the eggs we have been getting, 5 in 6 days. How can I figure out whos laying out of my 3 23 week olds?
Last night the wind blew at a yearly high of 50 mph. The chicken coop was getting the wind broad side and got knocked down. My BO and Black Australorp were in the coop just fine. The other two must have run away. After we got the coop back up we searched for a few minutes. I found our EE in the...
First egg!! I found it in the coop (in the nesting boxes which I wasn't expecting it to be in them) This morning. It was laid by my BO and it was small and light brown in color. Last night all of the boxes where filled with fluff and flat. This morning it was in a foot deep divot in the fluff.