Where are you located? If you have a habitat re-store in your area you can sometimes find stuff real cheep to build one. I have even seen complete little structures on craigs list for free. Have you looked there. Just an idea.
Rayne
One 6 month old red rooster needs to go to a new forever home. He has been chased away from his flock by a more dominant rooster to many times. And is now choosing to live at the neighbors house all alone. He will be happy to have his own flock to look after at your house. The neighbors have...
Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I think that i had better break her of this now. She is thiner than the other hens. It is to cold here where i live to let her raise chicks. I hope she will take to me changing her mind about laying on that fake egg. I will take all the fake eggs from each...
I have a very sweet broody hen that has been laying on her one fake egg for more than two months. Is it ok to just leave her alone? She is eating and drinking ok. I can reach in and pet her or even pick her up and put her out with the rest of the flock. She doesn't get mad and run right back...
I just wanted to share a picture of my new favorite pair of earrings. Deviled Eggs that my daughter made out of sculpey clay. We love deviled eggs around our house. My Daughter makes all kinds of tiny clay items and sells them on Etsy. She is a college student and this helps her make a bit of...
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So i have a dumb question for someone to answer. I have an EE that laid one little green egg more than 10 days ago. Now all i see are brown eggs of different shades every day since. What happened to the green eggs?
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Well i just collected my first green egg today yippee! All my EE hens have dark gray or almost black legs. I have 5 EE hens (not 8 like i had posted in my first post.) I was so excited to look for colored eggs i was counting my Black Star and 2 Red Star hens as EE,s. I think all of my EE,s...
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I guess there is a small chance that the other 5 EE hens may lay blue or green eggs. I love them all no matter what color there eggs are. I now check for eggs 4-5 times a day. Can you tell i,m a new chicken owner LOL. I have 12 hens and one giant roo.
I thought they were going to lay blue or green eggs. So will this possibly change or once they lay brown, always brown? I have 8 EE hens and 2-3 are laying at 18 weeks. Just wondering if i will see pretty blue or green eggs.
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If by chance my hens hide some eggs for lets say 3 or 4 days, would those eggs have a developing chick inside? Can you tell i'm worried i will sell or give away undesired eggs to friends of family.
Rayne
I would like to sell my chicken eggs in the near future. Do i need to check each egg to make sure there is not a developing chick inside before i sell them? I plan on collecting eggs every day and put them in the refrigerator. Before i sell them i will wash each one and put in an egg carton. I...
We are almost done with our new coop. I am not sure if we should put a perch or shelf directly in front of the nest boxes. You know the thing they need to jump up to, and then get in the nest box. What do your chickens like in front of there nest boxes? Our 4 nest boxes are 18 inches off the...
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Oh hummm.... I was looking forward to having something different After looking, how can you tell the difference between the Blue Andalusian and the "Araucana"?
Mine is not growing like any of my EE's (not the height or the weight), and a totally different temperament. How about...
Here is my Araucana at 4 days old and 5 weeks old. She looks very similar to your chick. I picked her up at the farm store and she was the only all gray chick out of about 200 they had just received that morning. Yes i was there when they unloaded all the chicks from there shipping boxes, so i...
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Hello!!! I'm Melissa and I love just outside of Yakima!!! Nice to meet you! These are my first chickens and the oldest ones were bought March 6 so I'm still a long way from getting eggs:( Are yours laying yet? Are they your first chickens?
Hi Melissa These are my first chickens also. I...
Loads of work done on the coop this weekend. This was the best picture i could get before it got to dark. My husband worked all day on it. I finished the insulation, when i got home from my real job. He put the metal roof on and wired it for one outlet and light switch. The boards on the end...
This is the first time we have owned chickens. So everything is new to us. I have been reading lots of info from this site and have a good book about raising chickens. Its been fun watching them grow. I am already planning on more next spring. Here is another picture of our progress. Husband is...