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79 grams! My DH just went outside to "check on the chicks" and came back in with an Easter Egger egg that weighed in at 79 grams!!! (70g is Jumbo). We've been weighing our eggs just for fun. This is probably the 6th egg Bunny has ever laid, she just started laying. I think yesterday's...

My Speckled Sussex, Suzy, has a sour, impacted crop. I have done all kinds of research on here and on-line trying to rectify the situation without posting another sour crop "emergency" . Mostly I'm seeing to feed her olive oil, massage her crop and either try to get it to break up and go...

I have a mixed flock, “the ladies” are 5 hens that are 36 weeks old, including Angelia a Black Australorp. I also have “the girls” 7 pullets that are 24 weeks old. The ladies have been laying since mid December, the girls have not started laying yet, but soon. I know Angelia laid a few...

This is my first year with chickens. We finished the coop Labor Day weekend and I covered the floor with pine shavings. I turn them weekly, add DE and/or a little Sweet PDZ and more shavings. I think I have used 3 bags of shavings all winter. (we started with 5 girls and then added 7 more...

When we were kids my dad hated mozzarella cheese and claimed even the smell of it cooking would gag him, so whipping up a ChefBoyRde pizza for our lunch while he slept from working third shift was a no no. When I moved out and was single I made it my personal tradition to have pizza every...

I took my stepson outside this afternoon to see the coop for the first time. I went inside to chase the big girls out so they would stop pestering the little girls, and instead of running outside.... Reba squatted!!!! Reba' a 25 week old RIR!!!! Please tell me my first egg will be here...

We have three questions, can anyone help us find answers? 1. We're getting ready to clean out my flower beds. There are some rhubarb plants in one bed...can the chickens have them? 2. We bought some indian corn for Halloween decorating, it has gotten wet and started...

We are pretty confident this is a pullet, RIR named Reba. Please confirm that She IS a she...Please! I have no idea what we will do with a rooster... Oh she hatched on June 28, 2010 Thank You, KimberlyJ

It took us 3 times longer to construct than we planned and twice as much money....but our coop and run are FINALLY finished. My husband is a wonderful man, but he is just NOT a builder...of course we learned this AFTER we started building the run! The shed is from Best Built Sheds in...

I couldn't understand why "y'all" referred to chicks as "Fuzzy Butts"...Now that mine first batch has arrived I get it! OMG-do you all see how I just typed FIRST BATCH like I'm already planning more!

I ordered six assorted chicks from MPC...one each Australorp , Buff Orpington, Barred Plymouth Rock , Golden Laced Wyandotte , Rhode Island Red and a Speckled Sussex . I was shorted the Orpington, of course that was the one I wanted most. My great grandmother always had Buff's and I wanted...

Hi, I just joined yesterday after "stalking" for a few weeks. 6 babies due to arrive June 29th or 30th! The coop is not even started and DH is busy coaching American Legion Baseball, so I guess I need to learn building skills ASAP. I have experience with Button Quails (Chinese Blue Breasted...