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Yup ours is an light socket camera but we enjoy spying on them. Luckily our coop/pen is near house so we have power. Found a corded lightbulb socket for a laview camera. Works great so far!

We mix sand with peat moss and the girls love it Eta not sure where your located but our local tsc, Walmart, and hardware stores carry it in big 2cubic ft or 3 cubic feet bags that are more like boxes or bricks lol

Our EE roos aren't too old yet, 11 weeks now, but Doofenshmirtz and Mister are learning to live under a bunch of hens lol Doofenshmirtz is crowing (ish lol) he is still squeaky lol and he coos at food for the girls Doofenshmirtz is the red one (blue wheaten Ameraucana(BWA) dad x...

Hopefully yours will be super friendly! Ours just seemed like nut jobs from the get go. Even as chicks they were a bit bonkers. That's why we thought maybe there was something wrong or off with them. We've generally only heard good things about them, that's why we had a few. Just because ours...

Out of our four we had, three became bullies and no idea as to why. When we removed them from the flock the dynamic changed instantly and a calm settled over the other girls. It was weird. We had figured maybe they were maybe too inbred? They always laid funky shaped eggs no matter what we did...

We just went through hell week of broodies. Four different black Australorps decided to test the waters last Monday and Tuesday. Then last Thur two of our olive eggers and our Mama on Saturday (good Orpington we let hatch twice). All BAs were back out by Friday, I think, and Goldie and Mama...

13 weeks yesterday.

I've had our olive eggers lay different shades of green, to even a grey before because of the bloom. Same with our Brahmas one lays pink eggs-- heavy bloom. It's fun to watch our eggers as sometimes we get speckles dark mossy greens and the next day we get pale greens (we only have four Oliver...

Aww poor chick. And our little super fluffy one finally got feathers and looks to be a pullet... Granted, this group seems to be more pure in genetics than our lights brahmas and have more feathers on their feet, so maybe that whole "slow to mature" is true for this group. However if we happen...

Little update! Aside from the damn broodies all are happy and well! And don't mind the littles at all! And they love their new run expansion (details in an article)

13 weeks tomorrow. And I'm adding Chipmunk (easter egger) to the lineup because she's just too pretty not to share! On the branch with our BBs are Olive eggers who are a week older

11 weeks!

Right? It's so weird too! Our little orange/white Dreamsicle we got because her down was a pale grey/creamy color, she looked like a dove grey for the longest time, then poof! Orange lol

Could she be laying soft shell eggs and the others are eating the mess? Calcium+vit. D tablets are recommended to maybe give her a boost? Eta even if they have oystershell doesn't mean they eat it lol I have one that nitpicks it lol

I have 3 that go broody near monthly. We have a large coop/covered run (have an article for reference) Mama- buff Orpington, hatched two broods, plus broody twice just over one year old Black Australorps - have had three separate year old hens go broody, one twice now (two are currently in...