So. My 24 week pullets have been frolickingly, free-ranging on half an acre under the Ohio summer sun for their whole lives. These are my first chickens. They’re pets and I have no expectations of them except love.
That being said, Winter is coming. What can I expect? Will they still want to be...
I have 6. My Light Brahma, Madam, is by far the Alpha. 2nd in command is my Buff Brahma, Brahama Mama. In the middle are my Black Austrolorp, Gnache, and Betty White, my Delaware. 2nd to last is my Buff Orpington, Leia (see Wino Chicken thread). Lastly, my sweet Barred Rock, Lacey, who sits...
My 21 week old Buff Orpington keeps drinking out of my wine glass every time I leave it unattended. I have to take it with me everywhere I go.
Is this odd?
2 of my 20 week-old Pullets are laying small eggs. Small is normal at this age, right? One is a Black Austrolorp and the other is a Buff Brahma.
These little first eggs can be eaten, can't they? They've each laid about an egg a day for a week and a half.
My Delaware is now 19 weeks. No eggs yet but my Australorp, also 19 weeks laid an egg 3 days ago and another today.
I also have 2 Brahmas, a Buff Orpington and a Barred Rock the same age that haven’t laid yet.
There are no other roosters to be heard, but he seems to crow in the coop about an hour before sunrise, sunrise when they leave the coop, before a storm and 4 or 5 unexplainable times during the day. Then he crows an hour or 2 before sunset that starts their last hour long perimeter journey for...