Thank you everyone. It's funny how quickly you get attached to animals. I cried like baby when I found her. I'd been nursing her all day long. Left her in a nesting box while I ate supper about 10 - 15 minutes. When I went to check on her she had just passed as she was still warm. I bawled like...
Something is wrong with one of my girls. Shes way to calm to be mine. No darting away when i enter the hen house. She us just laying on floor but watering station. Im worried bout her. Please help......just bison farmers around me.
They are all one breed. Haven't named them yet as I'm still trying to tell them apart, lol. They are all Leghorns. Finally I know what I have in my beautiful girls.
They were all chicks when we got them but I didn't know that and was very upset that they weren't laying eggs. So I started to do some research on chickens and found out that if they're cones and waddles were pink then they were just babies. Bright red cones and waddles= layers, now that I know...
not entirely sure why so many repeats of the same picture but I do apologize for that . Anyway just a few shots to see nesting boxes a pic b4 insulating and after.
Thank you all for your very informative opinions. I appreciate every bit of info. So...I got my one girl who is laying to lay in the nesting box by placing her inside yesterday morning when she was ready to lay and to my very happy surprise she laid her egg in that same nesting box this morning...
The only thing I knew about my chickens when Hubby brought them home on April 13, 2019 is that they are white, lol. He bought me 12 of them but sadly we lost one 2 days after we got them....I cried. So now I have 11 White Leghorn laying hens. I started to let them free range today during the day...
Hi every one:
I was away yesterday with my husband who had surgery. B4 we left I fed them a and found my first egg. When I got home found a second egg and this morning a third egg, very happy about that but wondering why it appears that there is blood on all my chickens and I am not even...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, April 13, 2019
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 12 laying hens
(3) What breeds do you have? not sure, but they are white
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? Having fresh eggs daily...