Recent content by clfehler

Thank you all for your replies. Looking back, and reading other posts about egg bound hens, I remembered that Saturday night when I put all my hens to bed (I go in and do a head count and bed check LOL) she had her back end toward me on the roosting bar and she was pumping her tail (and maybe...

And I'm at a loss as to why. I'm pretty sure she hasn't laid the last few days,(She's my only white egg layer) and yesterday she stayed in the nest box all day. Today she seemed to want to do the same, but I took her out and put her on a nice fluffy towel with food and water in the sunshine...

The Greyhound mix is the biggest culprit! LOL!! The Retriever mix learns much faster!

Major tragedy over here - a lesson learned very painfully. I lost SEVEN of my 13 chickens to my own dogs. My dogs spend the days in the house lately because it's been so blessed hot and humid here in Southern California, but are usually kenneled during the day. My ladies put themselves to...

My mother-in-law did that to the Great Dane my husband had when he was a kid and it worked like a charm. She was raised on a farm in Wisconsin so I don't question her methods! I'm going to have to do this myself, I think.

What really amazes me is that there are TWO yolks in these eggs, yet they are so small! Like by supermarket standards they aren't even a "medium!" I'm a dork, too, so I will probably be taking pictures when I make breakfast tomorrow! But I wasn't expecting this at 530 am - now I'm prepared!

My girls just started laying last week. The very fist egg was pretty big, but the rest have been what I would call a "Small" egg by supermarket standards. I've just finished using up my store bought eggs and brought my treasures out to make waffles for the kids for breakfast this morning. I...

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As hot as it's been around here (106 yesterday) I really thought they'd start laying late, but this morning when I went out to let the girls out to roam I found our fist egg!!! HAPPY DANCE!!! They are about 18 weeks old now, so I guess that's about right??

Today was a few cucumbers and some zucchini. Later today they will get watermelon. I purposely planted extra cucumbers and squash in my garden for my girls so they get that plus other goodies nearly every day. Also, the only one in my house who likes tomatoes is my youngest daughter, but I...

Mine is about 11 weeks too. Well....not going to get any blue/green eggs I guess.

Does this help at all???