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One of our hens has laid 2 eggs in a row with no shell or membrane. Just leaves a pile of yolk and white in the box. All of the girls have access to oyster shell. They are being fed Layena crumbles. They also get oatmeal in the morning, with a layer of cottage cheese or yogurt on the top...

One of our BO girls died on Christmas Eve. My brother had gone out to the coop with his kids and all the birds were fine. 20 Minutes later, my son went out to check for eggs and found Buffy dead in the shavings under one of the hanging feeders. It looked like she had just lay down and died...

Congratulations on the new arrival! I agree with Ray's Two Cents.....chickens LOVE whoever feeds them. Our chicks were a bit aloof for a while, but once they were moved from the brooder to the coop, and started getting treats from the whole family, they turned into a pack of dogs...

This morning my dad, aka Pop's, added a concrete step in front of the coop porch. As Pop's and my mom are in their mid-60's, they have found the higher step from porch to ground to be hard on the knees. The rise is a good 12 to 15 inches. So Pop's framed in an area and poured some...

Ok, I just watched the YouTube video on how to dispatch using the broomstick method. Is all that flapping just the nerves? For now my brother does all the "dispatching" if we have to cull our birds. He is a hunter and is used to the hands on dirty work. I want to know that, if for some...

There is nothing quite like the sound of a chicken herd chasing after you! Our 13 are not a flock, they are a herd. They are the happiest girls I've seen. Always following us around in hopes that we have more treats. And if we aren't fast enough in getting the treats to them, they will...

We only wipe the really dirty ones with a wet rag. And that is just prior to use. The rest are used as is, the way they came outta the hen

How long do hens usually lay before the eggs hit their maximum average size? Our Red Sex Links lay big, beautiful brown eggs. The others, Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, and EE's, are still laying smaller eggs.....in the 46 to 50 gram area. The girls were all hatched in the first week of...

Quote: One of our Rocks has to tell everyone, about everything! I was sitting in the coop with the girls, just visiting, and this Barred Rock, Bardie Barred, sat on one of the roost levels, right in front of my face and YELLED at me. She was about 18 inches from my face and just hollaring...

I have a Black Cochin Bantam hen, Charli, and she can be one of the loudest girls in our flock of 13. She is the only bantam that we have, with all the others being standard sized Barred Rock, Buff Orpingtons, RIR, and EE. When Charli gets wound up over something, anything, she can sound like...

My parents used to have a hot tub that sat under some pine trees. You would be sitting there in the evening, relaxing and enjoying the peace and quiet, when SPLASH.....something would fall out of the trees into the hot tub. MANY times it was one, or more!, of the Wolf Spiders. I'd take...

Quote: They're trying to get in the house because the weather is getting colder. I used to find them swarming all over the steps outside my front door this time of year just looking for an opportunity to scramble in. Now that I have chickens at my door all the time, the spiders are gone but I...

I despise spiders....the whole arachnophobia thing has me in it's grips. We have the Wolf Spiders here in Eastern Washington too. I spray the whole perimeter of my home with Home Defense Max which is supposed to be safe to kids and animals once it dries. I know it isn't a natural defense...

We have 2 EE's. One is the brown and blue/grey color, and she started laying about 2 weeks ago. The other one, who is a gorgeous gold and white, still hasn't laid anything. All 13 of out girls were hatched the first week of April, and all the other varieties have been laying since the end of...

The other evening, my dad was throwing a tennis ball for his two dogs. One of them spun around and accidentally mowed over one of our Buff Orpington hens, Squawky (she earned her name with the multitude of crazy sounds she makes). When she got up and ran off, the lower 4 or 5 inches of her...

Oh my......That HAD to hurt! I bet she whistles in the wind after that egg!!

Most of our 13 hens will run this same way. They usually do it when they are trying to get some where really fast! Nutty or normal? How about both! So far ours have yet to run into anything other than each other.

Quote: Has to be the chicken math/miscalculation Kasey

We have: Betty, Barbara, Beulah - The Barred Rock Girls Charli - Black Cochin Bantam that walks like Charlie Chaplin Helen "Rhode Island "Reddy Hot Lips - EE named after the MASH character. (She got the name because we had an EE roo that looked like a hawk, so his name was Hawkeye. MASH was a...

Quote: My parents have a neighbor that is a bit like this. The wife complains about everything....the noise of the trains drives her batty (then don't buy a home within 1/4 mile of the tracks!), the neighborhood dogs barking (altho we have to listen to their ankle biters all the time), and...