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Also the flock has been eating mulberries. I saw green berries on the ground after a storm (maybe she ate some unripe berries)? Making her a bath

Following because one of my ISA Brown has raised back and her vent is pulsing and she has a little bit of a runny bum. I cooked oatmeal yesterday and shared with them.And I wonder if she’s been laying the “deflated balloon” eggs

Learning.. just read they will eat hens if there’s not easier food 😳😱my client doesn’t mind sharing the eggs because black snake will eat the copperheads (if it’s hungry).. bet she doesn’t know it will eat a hen I’ve been helping her 8 years and this is the first year I’ve seen a snake

They told me there is at least one black snake getting the eggs 😱 I met this one today. Used a Chuck-It dog toy (flexible plastic long handle with special cup on end designed to throw a small ball a great distance) to retrieve the ones you see

Thank you for this option. I have never hatched before, so I didn’t even think of it. Client has a friend that will adopt all (country living is the best)

I don’t know how to destroy eggs. Especially with embryos or nearly formed chicks

She’s out of town 10 more days.. and she (let) the bird get broody.. if I knew today was day 3 or 4 but it might be past 7. How does the flock handle chicks? Can’t they stay with the mother hen (like natural birds)?

She left yesterday and she’s only keeping hens and goats from her late husband’s retirement adventure. She doesn’t collect everyday and that baffles me. The help only feeds them in the morning and opens the pen. So he knows this one has been on eggs for more than a couple days. Can I give them...

UPDATE: I reached out to my client and seems I have stressed for nothing. She has a contact that will take all her oopsies (it has happened before). She did give me some guidance how to identify new eggs in the clutch (by marking the current ones) and remove those - and for goodness sakes don’t...

One of my 1yo ISA Brown laid a soft egg today (yesterday?) I found what looked like a deflated balloon in the box. Getting average 3 eggs/day from 4 hens (same age). Thought one was laying somewhere outside the coop because I found an egg in the yard a few days ago. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s a beautiful 78*F with lower humidity (it has rained for the past 5 days!) My girls are preparing the next garden space (corn & beans)

Snakes are sneaky. Is there a tree overhead (or even very near)

Oh yes! They come up to my kitchen door peering in to let me know they are ready to go in 😂 their pen is open so they can put themselves up (if I’m not home when they are ready) and I lead them to the coop and lock the pen. Coop has a square pen with the housing on top. Hens enter through the...

Hi! My 4 ISA Browns laid all winter 🙌 while I started building a food forest.. I’ve decided to let the chickens continue to roam and I fenced off the garden areas. So far so good!