She’s just a week shy of 6 months old and has been squatting for about a week so we knew it would be soon but didn’t expect it today, especially since one of our older girls, a Black Australorp, has been occupying the chosen box for days.
It’s our first egg all week due to winter so it was such...
We have a ceramic egg in each of our two nesting boxes to show them where to go. Now that one of our three chickens layed their first egg, should I keep the ceramic eggs in there or remove them? We got our first egg today. The other two have not started laying eggs yet.
Thanks so much for the...
One of our chickens layed our first ever egg today! I am guessing it was our silver laced Wyandotte. She is 20 weeks old and starting squatting about 2 weeks ago. I also noticed yesterday that she kept going into the coop during the day and she would move the hay around.
It is so exciting!
Thanks all! We have a roof over the run.
We also have another feeder (rentacoop 20lb) that we were being over cautious on using until they got bigger but we may just be using it sooner than we thought. They are 14 weeks so I will be okay for them. It will keep it dry. Thanks for all your...
It's really raining here today so I haven't been outside and the chickens are just hanging out in their run. I turn on the chicken cam to check up on them and I see my GLW Munchkin banging the food dish against the hardwire. I know my daughter filled it this morning so I knew there was food in...
Hi! My name is Stef and I am from NY.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes. First time chicken momma. We got our chickens 10 weeks ago.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? We have 3. They are 12 weeks old. Can’t wait for more though.
(3) What...
Hi! First time chicken momma. I have spent hours reading posts on gender identification and I am still unsuse. Can you help?
i am leaning towards pullets but not sure about my SLW.
Meet Lucky (SLW), Munchkin (GLW) and Mabel (BA). They are 12 weeks old. Hard to get good pictures they move...