One of my girls laid a single egg like this last fall, about two months after she started laying. Is yours new to laying? For mine, I changed the brand of oyster shell I provided and never saw an egg like that again (I don't know that the weird egg was related to calcium but I did realize this...
One of my six girls was laying shell-less eggs every other day. I switched up the oyster shell I offered. I had been using the Manna Pro shell, which most of my chickens happily eat. I added a second container with flaked oyster shell (so smaller pieces), and within a week and a half, the soft...
Yup, I misspoke--it's 16% protein. Sorry about my brain fart!
The girls were all born in April. No roosters. I'm relatively certain it's my Easter Egger who laid this.
Today there was a soft-shelled egg. Everyone is still acting normally, so I'm hoping this is just my Easter Egger figuring out...
My flock of six is acting normal, though I did clean up some slightly runnier than normal yellowish poop in the coop this morning. A couple ladies had some yellowish poop on their butt feathers, but nothing alarming.
This afternoon, I retrieved this egg from a nest box. It looks like there are...
My girls were all born in April, and 5/6 began laying this fall. I've noticed a drop off in how many eggs I'm getting as the days are getting shorter (I'm in the upper midwest). I've noticed two of my girls who previously had moist vents now have dry vents. Am I correct in understanding that...
My black Green Queen, Puffball, lays a light brown egg that's indistinguishable from my Dominique's eggs. Good thing she's a cutie. She has feathered legs, a beard and muff, and four toes.
I have a Salmon Faverolles (from Meyer hatchery), and she isn't the smartest chicken. But she is a hoot--chock full of personality, has a lot to say, and loves following me around. She's really striking looking, too. I have a mixed flock, and she's always the one visitors comment on. Fern is...
They can't taste spicy so hot sauce likely won't work. I think they can taste bitter--maybe the bitter green spray some people use on wires in their homes to keep cats and dogs from chewing on them? Or just ceramic/wooden eggs do there's no positive payoff for pecking them?
In my limited experience, my Dominique is extremely cuddly and calm. Like others have said, my silver laced Wyandotte is calm but not friendly. Her inverse is my Salmon Faverolles, who is friendly but sooooo not calm! My BCM is calm, docile, and pretty friendly (though not as friendly as my...
My Black Copper Marans laid her first egg on the first of the month. In the first six days, she laid four eggs. But now she hasn't laid since the sixth. There isn't anywhere she could be hiding eggs, and she's acting normally. Am I correct in thinking this isn't egg binding, just her body still...
I have a flock of six, all different breeds. They all seem to get along pretty well. The two fluffiest are vying for the top hen role, which has been a bit amusing to watch (these two girls are an extremely puffy Easter Egger and a Salmon Faverolles).
I happened to be out in my chicken yard when my Black Copper Marans girl Violet laid her first egg (it's my flock's first overall egg too, so I'm excited!). It's a pretty little egg. Do you think she'll lay a more uniformly dark egg as she matures, or is she likely to keep laying speckled eggs...
I have one with six pullets. It's only been a few months so far but our neighbors have had the same coop for about a year. So far, so good! It's easy to clean and the neighbors said it handled our northern Midwest winter well.
I agree that 16 is likely a salmon faverolle. 9 could be either a silkie or a green queen--I have a green queen from Meyer who looks just like yours except she's a soft black color.