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I got my first 2 eggs from my 19 week old EE's yesterday. The one that laid the greenish egg is named Blue, because when she was a chick she was all light blue-grey colored and not a chipmunk. Now she's feathered out to be red and white and lays green eggs. I think I thoroughly misnamed that...

My cochin started laying at about 30 weeks old. Otoh, she's now an extremely reliable layer.

Hi, I have a small backyard flock of 6 healthy 18 weekolds and 2 1 year olds. My friend went on vacation and is boarding her 2 2 year old hens with me (ee and sebright). I put them in their own isolated run/coop. The EE has developed cocci symptoms after 10 days here. The other one is looking...

jeremy, i've received strict orders from the SO that i must build a new coop before I can have any more chickens, so I guess that's what's a dozen more During that torrential rain last week I found out that our previous water proofing was... lacking. Also, giant fluffy cochins look miserable...

Jeremy, your birds are lovely. I wish I could bid on those eggs, but chicken math has already gotten the better of me this year. How do you get your birds to sit still for pictures? Mine either flee the camera in terror or they want to peck at the shiny glass.

thanks everyone #3 is the one that concerns me the most too! I'll update this thread with pics when they start laying eggs (hopefully!). My daughter will be relieved that there will be no rehoming (we can't have roosters) like there was last year (ah, the EE pullet that wasn't, also might be...

~6 weeks ago, I plucked 4 chicks from the "americana pullets" bin at the feed store. We all know that means EEs, and I'm also starting to think the 2nd word was off-base as well. #2 and #3 puff up their chests and fly at each other a lot, but #2 always starts it. #3 has bigger spur buds than...

Hi fellow sf-baynians! I'm just checking in and saying ohai. I'm here in the south bay, and since we're having such a warm afternoon, i've just put my 4 week old EE chicks outside to discover the joys of the great outdoors. in a 4x4 ft bottomless cage. The cat is standing guard. The 2 hens...

2/2, before 7am! which makes up for the 0/2 yesterday.

My full size fluffball 10 month old buff cochin has been laying fairly consistently for three months now. But she's still laying small, narrow, pullet-type eggs. I have a Welsummer who is the same age, and started laying at the same time, and her eggs were only like that for about two weeks, now...

I've also got a few chickens under redwood trees and lots of ravens/crows. I see hawks and all the time, I've seen owls and eagles on occasion near by. I also see groups of ravens/crows chase off hawks, in fact there's at least 2 raven/crow nests in my neighbors oak tree about 100 ft away...

I see a lot of people trying to sex non-sexlink birds at this age around here, and was wondering what the success rate is on guessing/sexing the birds at this age? Last year I had 4 chicks and guessed that 2 were definitely pullets , 1 was probably a pullet and 1 was a cockerel at about 4 weeks...

hiker125: ikr, they have such cute faces. good luck with your chicks Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick: good to know. I was worried because the new chicks seem so wobbly and easily stepped on. But I want them all to get used to eachother so they develop a good flock dynamic. ikwym about the roo. Last year...

well, last year we wanted 4 hens. So we got 4 "pullet" chicks. 1 turned out to be a roo. 1 died randomly. So now we have 2. So I wish I got more last year. I'm also in a suburban area. The remaining 2 hens seem lonely in a way they didn't when there were 3. So I would say 3 or 4. I can't...

So today I got 4 ee chicks from the feed store and of course, my family is super excited - especially the 6 year old. We lost her favorite hen last week, so we need replacements. right? or is this how chicken math starts? We also want 4 blue andalusian chicks, but they come in 2 weeks later...

thanks. I usually clean out the enclosure about once a week too. I'm now thinking it was a failed landing from the roof of the coop. I was out there for 3 hrs pruning the trees next to the enclosure and saw the other hen use some tree branches to get up the roof of the coop and then jump off and...

So, my 10 month old blue andalusian hen just died. I have two hens left. The one who died was fine yesterday, and when my daughter and I went to check on the chickens this morning, we found her out of the coop, on the ground (but inside a cage of 1/2" welded wire). I checked for mites and found...

hi everyone. I'm happy to have found this board, I think like 17 of my questions were answered by reading the previous posts. I still have a few, so I can annoy y'all with them later. I have 3 pullets/hens (buff cochin, welsummer, and blue andalusian) - they are now 6 months old and all have...