Hi everyone,
So I joined this site because I have a chook named Henrietta, and she is a biggg girl. I am unsure of her breed, she came in a mixed group of hatchlings, she has the black body of an australoupe but has brown striped feathers down her neck. She regularly lays eggs that range between...
I have and flock of 20 week old BRs and RIR hens.
They’ve been laying for about 3 weeks but this morning 3 out of 5 eggs were much larger than normal and one had blood on the shell. Is there a reason they would all suddenly start laying really big eggs? Could they be laying double yolks? This is...
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Six Asian Black pullets - three months old seek employment in the Egg Production Business.
These beautiful young ladies were originally purchased as tiny chicks as a 4H Egg-to-Eggs production project. Covid sidelined the Fair season, so we find ourselves with at least six...
Does anybody know if red sex-links and black sex-links lay the same large brown eggs? Or do they lay differently? The hatchery with the red sex links are all sold out but they have the black ones so I am just wondering if they are the same?
My kitchen scale is broken, I had used it to weigh my chickens a while back and well.. they freaked out and broke it :hmm I have never tried to use bantam eggs in recipes, my first thought was just to weigh them and compare... but yeah, scale won't read anything.
So as the title says, how many...
So my pullets, which are about 20 weeks old, are laying the most adorable little eggs and I'm so excited as more of them come into production. They are EEs and BLs. But I'm wondering how long does it take, typically, before these cute little baby eggs become full-size big-girl eggs? What's been...
We have a mature Barred Rock hen here in Boise who needs a new flock to run with. We had two but one got sick and died a couple of weeks ago. Her sister is in good health but is now all by herself in our backyard. We we would like to find a new flock for her to run with since we don't plan to...
Hi all. I have been looking at this site since i got my baby chicks in May last year. Was making sure I didn't feed them anything bad and as the summer progressed, learning how to acclimate them to our winter. I live in the Yukon, Canada. But thanks to the info i got my girls are doing great. I...