I read all of the reply's and I pulled 18 eggs out mid morning, not sure if they are freaking just happy living out and have free range. I didn't know they have seasons too for laying?
What about when they scratch you when I hold my chicory she often scratches my chest area - I have a weakened immune system and ironically this week I was feeling sluggish and low grade fever for about 4 days - my stcrathes were starting to scab and I had a thought perhaps it could be related...
Good to know - we have a huge amount of crows which I figured they would try to hurt the chicks. We are on acreage so it's really hard to control the land
We have 11 chicks that are 9 weeks today. When they were smaller they had markings and we started naming them based on the markings. Three americanas that had an arrow on the head, so we named her arrow and one with a heart so she became sweetheart and one with a dot so she became Dottie- even...