laying eggs

  1. I

    New

    Hi! I’m new and thinking about adopting a couple of chickens! I’m in Santa Clara county and I didn’t think I could have chickens where I live. I’m wrong! Will two hens/chickens be able to lay about an egg a day between the two of them give or take? Do most of you build your own coops or is...
  2. P

    Nice Female Turkey Now Aggressive?

    Background: We recently adopted a neglected Black Spanish/Norfolk turkey. Now, when I say "neglected," I mean left to her own devices at [I'm assuming] a young age and in an area that is not suitable for unfettered free-ranging, unless of course, you enjoy shoveling your fowl off the street or...
  3. T

    Broody but still laying eggs!

    My 11mos Welbar has gone Broody! A few days ago was the first we noticed her hanging in the nesting box and not getting out - she was sitting on 3 eggs, hers abe 2 from other hens. I moved her and took the eggs and she hung outside in the run the rest of the day not going back in the nest. Next...
  4. A-Chicken-Person

    Sick chicken

    My sweet girl Dixie was sluggish and sat down when she ate she also had this really bad poopy butt. She is getting better, she is still slow but not waddling by feeling her keel she seems to have lost weight compared to other chickens. She still has the bad diarrhea and I wash her behind with...
  5. lavendermarie

    How to keep other hen’s out of broody’s nest?

    Recently my sebright brahma bantam cross went broody. She’s pretty small as you could imagine, and she went broody in a nesting box. It was the least popular nesting box, but of course now that she’s in it everyone wants it. They keep trying to squeeze their way into the nesting box with her to...
  6. MartinFamilyHomestead

    When will ducks lay??

    Looking for everyone’s experience on when their hens start laying. I know it’s typically 5-6 months (per google) but ducks can be so temperamental and vary flock to flock so just looking for personal experiences on when your young hens first started laying. Also according to weather/time of...
  7. J

    Get my chickens laying again!

    My main concern is that my chickens stop laying eggs and I want to get them laying again. Help! I am pretty sure it was bad diet. It started by getting rotten eggs. Egg production then slowed down and now out of 17 chickens we are getting zero eggs.
  8. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Duck Laying Northern NY

    I know hens begin the lay around 5-6 months old. I have a few girls getting close to this age but am in Northern NY and is already getting chilly out. I know ducks can be temperamental with laying. I know of people having ducks lay through winter and how flocks stop laying altogether during...
  9. soufiane

    hen loosing weight when laying eggs

    hello i have a 8 months hen that started laying eggs 3 month ago . she is the kind of chicken that lay eggs everyday and goes broody after like 20 days of laying . the problem is my hen have normal weight when she not laying eggs (after hatching eggs) and lose weight when she starts laying. she...
  10. Kerya

    First time duck eggs- help?

    Hello! I’m not quite sure where to put this- but I was wondering if there was anyone who could recommend a good bedding i can get to Canada? My Molly is due to lay eggs for the first time, and I haven’t gotten all the materials yet. I found that large flake pine shavings would be ideal, but I...
  11. M

    What symptoms do White Pekin ducks show when they are about to lay their first egg?

    I have two younger white pekin ducks, each about 4-4 1/2 months old. I am pretty sure they are both females, based on their quacks and feathers. One of the ducks the other day started dripping a clear-ish liquid from her bottom. Today she got in her kiddy pool and kept lifting her bottom up. You...
  12. Gatta0618

    Hens comb different colors, PLEASE HELP!!

    I been raising chicken for three years, this is the first time I have ever seen this. My chicken (peep peep) comb goes red, light pink, to purple. She don’t have notes or lice. She comes when we call her, still gets excited and jumps into the cars. (She will be 1 years old in March but started...
  13. Urban Waddler

    One duck not laying

    I have two Pekin Ducks. They hatched on May 5th this year, and at five months old, Loretta, my smaller duck starting laying an egg a day. Whitebeard, who is larger, and was born with a pale beak, has not laid a single egg. I know this because I have a duck cam. I would think she was a drake, but...
  14. S

    I’m new to raising my girls.

    12:50 pm Good Afternoon Friends, I am new to owning chickens. I’ve had my girls Shannon, Peep and May for approximately 6 months. My girls recently started laying eggs as of Tuesday this week. I have some concerns to this. How do I know the eggs are safe for consumption? I’ve researched this...
  15. KLIL

    Laying Age?

    Hi everyone, Just curious, how old was your pullet when she started to lay? And what breed was she? Thank you
  16. ShellyBlanco

    Our DIY Coop and Tractors

    (NE North Carolina) We are new at chickens. Our first flock was purchased in March 2018. It was pretty cold when we purchased our first 10 RIRs, so they were living in an ever expanding cardboard box "condo" in my office and we hadn't built our coop yet. When I noticed their dust baths were...
  17. ChickenMama0330

    New Chicken Mama

    Hello All! My husband and I just got our first flock of chickens this year! He has wanted them for a few years now and I have not, knowing that I would be the one who ends up taking care of them. I finally relented thinking, "okay now that he has permission, he'll give up and not want to get...
  18. cindagram

    Lifting hatch while egg laying

    I’m curious if it disturbs my girls when I lift up the hatch to check for eggs when they are in there? I started opening the door to the coop just a peek around to see but I don’t know if this is necessary or not. I will say, when I lift the hatch it squeaks and that might be disturbing. They...
  19. TaaDaaGina

    Missing and Cracked Eggs

    Hello All, this is my first time posting. I have a question regarding my "Alpha" Golden Sex Link Hen (I own 2 hens) - who has been a SOLID - one egg a day producer. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that there was a broken egg in an unusual place. After that I noticed that she didn't always lay...
  20. Q

    how old do snowflake quail chicks need to be to lay eggs

    how old do snowflake quail chicks need to be to lay eggs?
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