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This is my first spring/summer getting my sustainable homestead up and running. My goal is to start with four heritage dual-purpose breeds that will breed and produce replacement chicks the natural way by next spring. I am not looking for show quality or SOP birds, but don't know if one of my...

I have six black Australorps (23 weeks old) that I got my first egg from on July 24th. Today I got six for the first time!!!!! I have gotten five eggs twice, but thought the smallest pullet, lowest on the pecking order, would be a while yet, since her comb and wattles only turned red about...

I have six black Australorps hatched Feb. 28, 2011. I got my first pullet egg on July 24th, which weighed in at 1.55 ounces. Slowly, the others have started laying, with the first pullet eggs weighing in as low as 1.31 ounces, as would be expected. The first egg layers' eggs have been...

I grew up on a farm, and always had free-range chickens, so our eggs were fresh, had firm whites, dark yolks and great taste. The hardest thing I had to do when I left the farm was to learn to eat grocery store eggs with the thin, runny whites and the pale yolks and bland taste. I remember...

My order of 33 chicks arrived at the post office at 9 o'clock this morning. I had been really worried about them making it in this heat. All of them were fine but one little Cornish cross was dead in the box. They had all the Cornish crosses on the other side of a divider except this one...

This is not about my chickens, but this seems like the best forum to post this story about chicken pets. Our electric cooperative holds an annual "My Favorite Pet" youth art contest and the results are published in the monthly magazine called Cooperative Living. I thought it was very...

My chicks are almost six weeks old, been fully feathered out for some time. Black Australorps mature faster than most heavy breeds. I have been procrastinating for some time about finally putting them in their coop and run for a while. My excuse has been that it has been unusually wet, cold...

Hello! I read about this website in my new Backyard Poultry Magazine. Forum member, matthewschickens, was singing its praises, so I decided to have a look. I am Sunny, known all over the 'net as Wildflower_VA. I was raised on a farm, but life took me other directions until last year. Last...