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I just got six chicks, too! I will upload pictures soon. They are adorable.

Okay. Is seems like this is taking for ever...

She was laying on the ground and panting with her mouth open (picture below). However, when I went out to the run the next day, she was fine. She is eating and drinking normally.

OMG! Ok, so I was in the pen the other day and I saw one of my hens laying on the ground panting and she was moving really slow. It scared me; I thought she was sick or something. Is that the "panting" your talking about?

What do you mean by the "egg song"?

This is a picture of one of my buff pullets. She is not laying yet and she has the darkest face of the other hens. So judging by her face, how old do you think she is and about how long would you say she has until she lays?

It was definately a suprise.

Yeah we have gotten some eggs like that haha. But the double yoke that I ate last night was not even that big. It was a normal sized eggs but the two yokes were tiny.

Well, we got out first double-yoke egg yesterday from our RIR's!

I will post a picture tomorrow bc most of my pics are not very recent and I think they are about 6 to 7 months old if not older. We got my buffs when they were about 2 to 3 mos old. I know that they are fatter than my brother's chickens which are already laying lol.

Oh okay well i think my buffs' wattles are still pink. Darn.

My hens' faces aren't but my roosters' are. Thier faces have to be dark red before they start laying?

All of my buffs are pullets. I wish they would hurry up and lay, though. Everyone thinks they aren't going to lay because I pet them too much. Ha! I do spoil them.

Oh okay. Do you have any pullets?

What do I put in thier feed to ferment it?

Cool. This is my first flock, too. I really do enjoy taking care of my chickens, but I don't like it when I have to take care of my brother's chickens when he isn't there, like cleaning out nesting boxes and cleaning the run. But I am looking forward to hatching my first eggs by incubator and I...

Ha! The other day I accidentally cracked an egg and it was fertile so we know now (for sure) that the rooster, Goerge, is getting around. Our RIR hens jsut recently started laying and we think only two of the six are laying right now.

How sweet. My friend has a banty hen that they think killed one of thier roos. haha! My buffs will jump in my lap, too; that's why my brother's call me a 'chicken whisperer' .

Are your banty chickens mean?

Wow they are beautiful. How long have you been raising chickens?