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    New layers egg white issues when cooking

    Thanks for the tips and letting me know it wasn’t in my head.
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    Sand and other litter

    I have a coop that is small and insulated, inside a run inside a woodshed. When we moved the chick outside we used dry bagged in paper leaves that we had in the shed from fall, by themselves they mat down quickly and the pulleys were in the small coop a lot and only outside a couple of hours(...
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    What temperature is it where you live?

    3c but windy and the sun is starting to go down. Chickens don’t mind they have run all over today. Ground still frozen under top layer though.
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    New layers egg white issues when cooking

    I have birds that have only been laying for 6 weeks. I have noticed some weird things while cooking their eggs. I was guessing that it was because the eggs were really fresh rather than the chickens being so young. When I hard boil them it is very hard to get the white off whole. Above someone...
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    What do you do with all your eggs?!

    You can’t sell farm gate as the regulations here call it? I don’t think you can here if you are a registered producer of something else but you can sell duck eggs because they are not regulated. But there is a fresh egg sign fairly regularly in my area. I let my daughter collect $3.00 from the...
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    What do you do with all your eggs?!

    A Neighbor that has hens for many years ( ducks & geese &turkeys too) who was a 4-H leader whose son raised winning birds. Still has some that won’t lay where they’re supposed to. He doesn’t let them out until 10am so they all lay inside the hen house. I am really new to owning chicks but am a...
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    New folks

    Thanks for the welcome spent the morning looking at poop charts learned lots and that the birds have normal poop
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    Canadians check in here....

    That’s a lot of kinds and birds, we are in the middle of NS near the Ross Farm Museum. Where is your family.
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    Canadians check in here....

    I feel silly but I don’t know what breed they are. They a red brown with creamy down some redder than other variegated around the neck with bright red combs, ears and neck bits &yellow legs.The farm supplie store just calls them layers. They were day olds,dark yellow with dark strips down their...
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    New folks

    Thanks can you tell me what to do to post a profile pic the bathroom dress is sad
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    Canadians check in here....

    Mine eat snow! I have an coop inside a shed so they have a 4 x12 run inside the shed wired off ( ok it is not entirely finished). And when it’s not bitter and the ground is partly clear they go outside and run free.some years we will have to dig our way there so that’s why to inside yard, But I...
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    Canadians check in here....

    Very new member, Nova Scotia, 22 year now but from BC originally. 3 kids 5 cats 3 rodents of various kinds and 6 chickens. Canadian questions at what temperature do you heat your coop? Do add light to get eggs in short days. Can wild birds get ill and or other way round from the chickens mine...
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    New folks

    Hi I have just 6 regular brown laying hens they are 5 months they have been laying for a month. It is kind of a backyard set up although we live on a rural property. We are in Nova Scotia Canada so it can be very cold so we have a small insulated coop inside a fenced run inside the wood shed,and...
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