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After the dog attack, I guess I'm too leery of everything! I caught my Easter Egger nesting in the garage in a box. Normally, they will all lay there eggs in the same stall in the inner coop of the chicken pen. Now, it would seem that their sanctuary has been breached by the dog attack. I used...

If a chicken lays ONE egg a day, and has several baby chicks, does the rooster impregnate her for every one of those chicks, once everyday? Or, does he have to do his thing just once, and that one will last for a while? And how does she know to stop having eggs or chicks? First time chicken...

Quiet, peaceful, sunny day. Then tragedy struck! I didn't hear ANYTHING. Then I was downstairs in the kitchen. The chicken pen is located just outside the house on the side of the kitchen. It was normal to hear a little whimper, when one of my hens had an egg. But this sound was unusual. It...

HELP! ANYONE! My Easter Egger was making girgeling sounds this morning. I stay in front of her, not knowing what to do. They she walked on. I didn't know what to do or think. Hoping that she'd be OK, later. Then I found her in the egg laying box, nearly dead! Should I let her alone? Or should I...

Yes. I did. I sat in the heat, inside my (their) chicken pen, on a wood log, while my Easter Egger, Joy; Rock Barred, Sweetie and Golden Laced Wyandotte, Sugar, were in the egg box stalls, respectively. This is how I finally found out exactly which egg came from what chicken. Well, somewhere...

One morning my husband was outside in the front of the house, just enjoying the slightly "cooler" weather. All of a sudden, Precious, my most inquisitive Golden Sex Link chicken came near to him. He couldn't resist the desire to pet her. She allowed it, to his surprise, then he picked her up...

In the morning, after I let my girls out of their coop, they skedaddle out and beyond their pen, and out into the larger yard for their day ranging. But lately, I've had some students coming back to check out just what I'm doing to their "classroom!" What I'm doing of course, is cleaning out the...

HELP!!! I finally got brave enough to eat one of my own eggs. So, I gave my husband and egg sandwich (blue eggs) from our Easter Eager, Joy. BEAUTIFUL! They were great tasting too. So, then, I took two of Sweetie's eggs ( beige, Rock Barred). Same wonderful deep yellow....only when I looked I...

Does anyone have the same "problem," if it is a problem? My Sweetie (Rock Barred) has black bumps now appearing on her comb and waddles. I don't know if I should be alarmed about it or not. Does anyone know about this?

Sweetie just laid her 11th egg today! My husband suggested putting a picture of chicken McNuggets in front of the non-laying hens. I did have a conversation with Joy, and showed her Sweetie's egg. Then I tried to show it to Sugar, and she absolutely ignored me! Below, a pic of Joy and Sugar.

I got my 3 older chickens in late February of this year. I thought they were probably a few days to a week old. On August the 1st, my cute, little Rock Barred Sweetie laid her very first egg, and has laid an egg ever since! That's now 9 eggs today! I'm so proud of her. My other "older" hens...

I have a vary small patch of cantaloupes and watermelons behind my back porch. I also planted some dwarf Cavendish Banana trees, which are coming along. I have a few stalks of corn growing along side my Grand Main bananas (which haven't fruited, by the way). Yesterday, after I'd already...

Here in south east Texas the temperatures can get well above 100 degrees sometimes in the Summer. I do my best to break the pinnacle of the day heat by bringing my chickies pans of cold fruit, and replacing the inner water bottles I place into their main water bucket with frozen bottles. I also...

My little flock are unanimous about their opinion for their new yard run! I felt sorry for them, because they were actually stretching their little necks to get to the grass outside their chicken run gate. So, I went to work with my husband's sledge hammer, some netting that I still had, a tarp...

At evening time, when I put my older chickens to bed (they're now four months old), they crowd and try to get up under each other. They also make some lonesome sounding cooing noises...they can't all be ready to have eggs yet, can they??? I'm just wondering about this behavior. Being a first...

This morning, I stepped out to check FEED ME, my cucumber plant that is about to eat the whole neighborhood! Normally, I don't name my plants, but I've made an exception with this one. I harvested seven cucumbers (some perfect pickle size) today, and put them in a colander to consider for a...

I don't know enough about chickens yet to know what I'm not supposed to do. Ignorance DOES have its rewards....I think. LOL! I have strung lights all over my chicken run, and have large lights for both coops inside. The chickens seem to like it, of course, what are they going to do? Form another...

My older flock of chickens (3 months old now) decided to wait me out tonight! I tried rattle canning them. I have something REALLY GOOD, that they like in the can. I shook the can, and sprinkled a little bit into their coop. They saw where it was going, and just looked at me. It was already...

While huddled in their sandbox, Sugar, Sweetie and Joy wasted no time letting me know that they did NOT appreciate that I recently turned their favorite play area, that is shadier than the rest of the chicken run, into the new coop arena for their younger friends, my four, little Golden Sex...

Hi, in February of this year, I got my very first chickens. I was supposed to get all pullets; 2 Rock Barred and 2 Easter Eggers. One of my Easter Eggers got sick. I was nursing her back to health, and my little jealous dog killed her! Now, I'm supposed to be left with 1 Easter Egger (Joy), and...