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I went out of town for a long weekend. I left my birds cooped while I was away, and when I returned, I found one of my California Whites laying on the coop floor half dead. She appeared to have been attacked by the rest of the flock. She had puncture/laceration wounds on her neck and back...

I had a possum get into our coop last fall and killed a couple birds. This spring, I was at tractor supply grabbing some feed and I saw they got in a shipment of Buff Orpington pellets that were just day old. I knew I had to replace the hens that the possum took out, and I just happened to have...

So I have a Buff oprpington who went full on broody. She got herself a clutch of about a dozen eggs and began sitting on them. Normally I break them of this, but this time I decided to let her hatch some chicks. This particular hen is about 15 months old, and may be the 1st time shes been...

My wife brought home a silkie as a pet for our girls hoping we could intrigrate it into our existing flock. Before we can think about doing that, we need to find out if its a pullet or Cockrell. We'll have to rehome it if its not a hen. We have 5 hens currently that are about 8 mo old. This one...

We have 3 barred rocks, its the one in the front that we're unsure of. I suspected an easter egger when we started getting green eggs but i wasnt sure.

My wife brought home a couple of new chickens to add to our small flock. Her coworker had some and was looking to down size so she took our daughter out to her farm to pick a couple of birds out. They are both around 6 mo. old. One is a silkie, but the other one is a mistery to us. Any help...

I was wondering that...seems about the time I pulled the golf balls out that I the egg supply started drying up. I got 4 eggs today but I never let them out of the coop either.

I have no roosters, just the 5 hens. She doesn't seem like she's broody, but I can't say for certain. I've never dealt with a broody hen before. I will inspect the eggs. Anything questionable will probably go to the garden or back to the girls. And I'll talk to the boy when I get home and...

Ive heard of the float test but have never had a reason to try it. I think I read that they don't actually go bad,but the shells are semi permeable to air, and they just dry out. I don't know for sure. If nothing else, I can feed them to the garden. I had golf balls in the nesting boxes early...

So I have 5 Buff Orpingtons, approximately 30 weeks old. We live in the middle of town and have a privacy fence up around our entire property. They have the entire run of the yard during the day minus the garden and only go into the coop at night. A couple of weeks ago I had 5 eggs in the...

We got an egg! I checked when I was locking up the coop and just found it. She must have laid it sometime this afternoon because it wasn't there when I got home from work. I started to carry it into the house but decided to leave it in the coop. My son has been checking for eggs every morning...

Sweet. The old lady will be excited. So if she's an early bloomer, how soon can we expect eggs? Are we talking days or weeks?

I looked back at the calander, we picked them up May 13th, not the 15th. I think the invoice listed their hatch date but I could not find it. I dont think they could have been more than a few days old when we got them. So they should be going on 19 weeks. No spur development that I noticed...

Ive been lurking around the forum for a while since the boy said he wanted chickens. We ordered 5 buff orpington pullets and they arrived May 15th. One of the birds has grown a comb that's been turning very bright red and I'm worried we may have ended up with a rooster. The other four ladys have...