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A little over a year into this and now hubby has decided to go with pullets going forward vs. ordering chicks. Last I looked they are so much more expensive but I suppose when I consider feed costs it probably comes out in the wash. The chicks sure were cute to watch grow and all, but me...

Hubby just returned from fetching eggs and putting chickens away for the evening and one eggshell was bloody. Only into this for a year and this is the first I have seen of that. He commented that it is from a new layer. But, humph, the youngest are too young to lay and the rest are over a...

Hello, Since days are shorter and most of our girls are not laying anyway; shouldn't I cease feeding egg shells to my girls at least until spring? Thanks in advance for response.

A couple of weeks ago our last additions arrived, all pullets. We opted for 12 black australorps and three black marans. The paper that arrived with them said the marans have orange on their necks (I think it was orange). Welll, I don't see it, LOL. I am sure as they mature we will know the...

Not sure, but even the hens have all but stopped laying and the other day I thought about it and realized roos not crowing either. Geesh, wonder what's up, should we worry, what to do? We just got last batch of chicks for this year and whatever is ailing my gals and guys I surely don't want it...

I have the nerve to be posting such a topic, But it has been a minute since I hung out with yaw'll so it is more of an excuse to write. So, for now I think my fave breed(s) would have to be my buff orpingtons. Those girls seem to be my ride or die. Next would be easter eggers. They seemed...

Just opened email from Meyer and my babies have hatched. I notice when they say, "Your chicks will arive this day (one); that day (2); or the other day (3) - it always seems that we get them the next day. :gig That's cool because I am off work tomorrow. Either way, I work 'round the corner...

Can you see what I see?

I have been describing them as lean and mean, aggressive and take no prisoners :gig. But, I just read a thread and saw the word skiddish and think perhaps that is a better description. When I go to feed those babies they run around their pet playpen brooder like mad men and women. Now that...

It's been a while and we need to reconnect. Our latest batch for this season/year is 10 straight run black australorps from Mt. Healthy. All ten arrived healthy and thriving and are to this day. We have them in a pet playpen turned brooder in my sewing room. Oh, and we also ordered three...

We received new chicks this morning and they are chirping away! This has probably got to be the loudest bunch of chicks that we have ever received. This is the first of two orders for the year. We have australorps and Barnefelders the Barnies are pullets and the Austras are straight run...

So goofy they must come home to Mamma! :lau

Our flock went from 19 eggs/day to 1-3 eggs. Not blaming the food (we were using 16% protein, switched to 21%ish from local feed store). Cleaned out coop real good (deep method not for us, for now anyway - may go back to it when I get better at chickening in the years to come). Figuring what...

1) Can a flashlight be used; why?, why not? I tried with a small flashlight and none of the eggs seem fertilized. With all the nookie my cockarels are getting I would think SOMETHING would be fertilized. 2) Does a cockarel start mating BEFORE ability to fertilize? Any particular candler...

Look at this particular batch . .. cloudy with flecks of stuff (the lime perhaps). At this point we have one 5-gallon bucket full; this container, an old ice cream container full, and I think one other. I kinda don't want to do more. I'd rather give away to friends until next winter and we...

I think it looks weird. of course we don't know which gal it is from. Trying to think of a way to describe how it feels. It is rough, I can feel the color transition (if that makes sense).

I was outside raking the dirt and lo and behold hubby walks up with the "Look at this" look in his eye. While at work yesterday I get a text about loose dog(s) at the homestead. Hubby says he put multiple slugs in one of them and told me not to let the chickens out when I got home. He had...

Well, I solved the incubate vs. buy chicks dilemma. I watched the 360 incubator go from $180 something down to $150 something and back up to $180 something. I did not have the funds when it was $150 and I can not stomach buying it at $180 when only weeks ago it was less. Per advice I received...

Chicken math rears it's ugly head again . . . :lau

I saw this video And now I am intrigued. Certainly seems as though it can't hurt.