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Quote: I have one and the lady down the street from me has 10 mine is ALWAYS BROODY and she has 5 broody right now. great color yes but mine when broody at 5 months old it wasn't till she was over a year old that she raised 17 chicks and after raising them for 4 months i got 5 eggs from her...

Thanks, everybody, for your wise and funny answers. Good news - this morning the Barred Rock laid the first egg! So happy! She had rolled the golf balls back into the nest box and there beside them was a perfect little egg.

I have 5 pullets of various breeds that are 24 weeks old. No eggs have been laid yet. Several weeks ago I placed three golf balls in a nest box...in an effort to show them where to lay. In the last couple of days, I have found a few of the golf balls rolled from the nest box into the adjacent...

My pullets are 23 weeks and no eggs yet. I have one each of BO, EE, Black Langshan, Welsummer and Barred Rock. Some have gotten pretty large wattles and combs. The Welsumer has a crush on my husband. She squats as soon as he walks into their large run.

I've been feeding the Cascade Layer feed for a few months now. Purchased from Azure Standard. I REALLY like the ingredients. If I could make a suggestion to Cascade, it would be to look into "pelletizing" it. It's kind of dusty and the hens spill a lot. But if pelletizing would reduce...

First time to post a pic...hope it works. This is Lucy, my Barred Rock. And Goldilocks, my Easter Egger. And Savannah, my Welsummer.

snowflake: Yes, they roam around the backyard quite often. It's not a large area...maybe 1500-2000 sq feet.

My hens are kinda picky, too. They love cabbage worms and earwigs. But they don't like the brown slugs...maybe because they look like poo? Sometimes they will eat spiders and sometimes not. I saw my Welsummer glup down a huge, scary spider once. The biggest surprise is that they were not...

Boo-Boo Mama: You know, I think you are right about food getting "lost" in the sand. Good point about a feeder for the BOSS. Mahonri: Well, that is disturbing. I surely don't want to cause impacted crop with the sunflower seeds. Has anybody else heard of the shells causing this problem?

Thanks for the extra info on grit. I'm a "by-the-book" kinda girl, so I'll make sure to buy some grit just in case they don't have enough.

Thanks so much, everybody, for your replies. I have both the big, striped seeds and the smaller black ones. The hens have access to oyster shells and the backyard is very sandy, so I believe that should be a good grit supply. (Please correct me, if I'm wrong.)

I'm new here and have benefited greatly from your expertise. Until now, all of my questions have been answered by other posts. Now for the question: This summer I grew sunflowers and I'm saving the seeds. I would like to feed them to the chickens, but I'm not sure if I'll need to remove the...