girls are two years old now, and laying regularly. We have been getting 2 or 3 eggs evey day, even through most of the winter, cold as it was here in the Northeast. We were worried about them being cold, so we wrapped the coop, 2/3 of the way up, with a fairly thick clear plastic, and had one...
This is strange! We have 5 hens, and for most of the summer, we have been getting 4 eggs a day. That is, if you don't count the period of time that we had a broody Australorp, whick knocked down production to 3 most days. This past week, we've gotten 5 eggs three out of the last 5 days, and on...
We had a black Austrolorp who turned out to he a 'he'. He was a beautiful bird, but city regulations state that chickens are fine but no roosters. Kinda'njust as well - He was so protective of his hens that he would attack when someone came near. This included me, and I usually was the one to...
Yay!! Doing a 'happy chicken dance' . We got 5/5 today, so now we're sure that all five of our girls are laying!!
AREN'T THEY PRETTY??? Top two from our 2 Red Sex Links, middle, our black Australorp, and the bottom 2 from our Rhode Island Reds