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We name ours too!! Nutmeg, Tiger Lily, Emerald, Pansy, Velvet, Magpie, Poppy, Marigold, Gigi, and our two new babies Coco and Buttercup.

We hatched 3 chickens in the summer one born 3 weeks before the other two. We knew the oldest was a rooster but thought the other two were hens. Turns out all three were roosters. They were aggressive and the social hierarchy of the flock was thrown all out of whack. The two youngest...

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We had a broody hen and my neighbor gave us some possibly fertilized eggs. One hatched today but we think the broody might have mites. When my husband was checking for the hatched chick, he felt something crawling on his arm and found teeny tiny (smaller than a pin head) things crawling on his...

I ended up finding out that it was most likely because it was the hen's first egg she laid. They have been laying for months now and I never had another one lay a shell-less egg!! I mix their crushed shells in with their food sometimes too!! Thanks for your reply!! ng

Hens will be a year old in May and have been laying perfectly fine eggs until today when my husband sent me a picture of an egg laid in the roost poop tray that had a soft shell. All of our chickens have been laying normal eggs with no problems, We did notice that our Barred Rock had a clump...

OMG!! a gecko in the dogs water bowl...that's a first for me!!! The research we've done said not to heat the coop, the hens will grow the feathers they need to stay warm. We have a fairly large run so I bought some reinforced plastic sheeting that I am going to wrap around most of the run for...

OMG!!! Princess!!! That picture with your husband is just adorable!!! We don’t have a rooster (but I kind of wish I did) to take care of our girls. But there are a couple of mama hens in the flock who seem to keep the others in line. I put a folding chair in my run and sit out there sometimes...

I love this!!! Your Princess is adorable. We feed our cross-beak Nutmeg with a mixture of ground layer crumbles, yogurt and water blended up in the blender and fed through a syringe with a silicone tube. I feed her this way once every couple of days. She is capable of eating regular food from...

We named some of ours based on flower names, Poppy, Marigold, Pansy, Tiger Lily, some based on their color, Nutmeg, Velvet, and Magpie, the others based on egg color, Emerald who is our olive egger and the last one we named Gracie because the other chicks tried to kill her when they were all...

Yep, I'm looking all around the run and grassy area to find eggs!!!

Thanks, I will have to think and come up with something to fit over/in front of those baskets!! Maybe that's why they go under the nesting baskets, for privacy.....although my one layer dropped one in the run...coo-coo birds!! :p

I put golf balls as well as real eggs in the nest boxes, I even put one in the nest box when she went under the box where she has been laying but she just looked at me like "yeah, right" and jumped out, left the coop and pooped her egg out in the run!! Stinker!!

I guess I will have to so I can get them to lay in the boxes!!

my girls (well, only one of them is laying so far), will not use the nest boxes. The one that is currently laying lays them on the coop floor just underneath the next box. My husband went out there the other day and found all 9 of them crammed underneath the nest boxes. I have tried putting...

We are still pretty new at chicken keeping (since May) so we haven't had to deal with illness, parasites or death of any of the flock. But I haven't had to trudge out to the coop in the winter. So I suppose i need to hold judgement on that until next spring, LOL!!! The poopy doesn't bother...

Freeloaders...hahahahaha!! I guess 8 out of nine of mine are freeloaders too! And the ninth lays shell-less eggs so far!!....hahaha

Deets on the camera???

I had golf balls in there until about a week ago when hubby removed them. I guess I will put them back....I have been looking all over the coop and run to see if they laid eggs somewhere else but so far, no one else has. I could sure use a coop/run cam right about now so I can watch them from...