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They are 8 months old now. This has started ever since they all started laying about two months ago so there are always 4-6 eggs every day. If I miss collecting when I get home, there is a whole nest full the next day by noon. They have no extra light - I have their coop inside a porch room to...

I am new to chickens but I thought it was one egg a day? I have five chickens- one is absolutely my rooster, three are silkie mix hens (satins) the last I thought was a hen but other people think it is a rooster. I get 4-6 eggs every day so 30- 36 eggs a week. It is never less than four eggs so...

I am very new to chickens so I apologize if he is some obvious type of chickens. I have never been around chickens before but I am learning. I hatched my five chickens about six months ago and know that three of my hens are satins (silkie mixes) but I don’t know what my last two are, if...

That sounds interesting, is that way they are laying that many eggs so quickly? Do you know what my rooster is, I think he and the other black hen are the same breed but I’m not sure.

I have three with the extra toe and hairy feet. I have never been around chickens so I don’t know much. We hatched chickens in a classroom and I took five home. I guessed all the sexes from the very beginning and I do have my one rooster, he just seemed like a rooster from the first week. They...

I hope so - honestly, the people at the store said to keep them on the Dumour chick starter grow until they were 4-5 months old, so I did and then I mixed it with the Dumour layer crumble 16% that is enriched and I add pampered chicken treat with dried flowers and herbs and another one. I toss...

Thanks, this is very new to me -I don’t know anyone with chickens but my daughter and I are attached to them

Oops, her, we always say him and I know it’s a hen

I don’t know - they could be a mix. I just know they have the hairy feet, extra toe and fluffy head. They aren’t too big and they all look completely different. Daisy kind of looks like an owl, butterscotch is the smallest and not really fluffy and then sparrow is mostly black and almost can’t...

The coop has four nesting boxes but I am guessing they like to share. We will absolutely go back to looking every day now - it was a month with nothing. I guess silkies start laying faster than I was told. I guess that means their diet is okay. Is there anything I should know about them- they...

I am new to chickens, our school hatched chickens as a university project and then a few of us kept them. I have what I think are three silkie hens, I have one rooster who looks to be an Easter egger and one hen I believe is an Easter egger. They are almost six months old now. We found the first...