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Such lucky chooks! I love this glimpse into your kitchen visitors.

Mugs Monday: Quincy and Becky feeling goooood! They’re fluffier than usual ☺️ Moa the Marans at 12 weeks and Caroline the impossibly white Olive egger at 11 weeks. These are going to be big girls! Pips the hatchery olive egger at nearly 9 weeks. She’s still quite slight, and loves to come...

I would guess pullet 🤞🏽

Wow that’s a lot of broody time! It extends their life in theory- assuming that laying lots of eggs is what will kill them. If, like my Veruca, being broody meant skipping on self care (anorexia, no grooming), then I’ll bet it’s to the hen’s detriment to be broody for long/repeatedly.

Probably most would lay light brown, and some would have a tinge of color.

You would get a dark green if you had a dark layer (think: Marans, or welsummer). If you mixed your Easter egger with another light brown layer it would just make a more mild colored laying Easter egger.

That poo looks normal, but I’m concerned that if you pump her full of new foods (like coconut oil) it will end up making her poo look unusual. Where did she have egg gunk on her? On her bum, or chest? It kind of looked like she laid a soft shelled egg (normal for an old gal!) and then both...

Oh how heartbreaking, to not only rehome him, but also need to explain what happened to a kid who likes and may miss him :(

I had really girded myself for a harrowing ordeal. I mean plunging chickens, one by one, into buckets of water was bound to be a disaster, sure mayhem! But I was wrong. They all settled comfortably into the warm water as though it were routine; they actually went into a trance. Even when they...

Oh my, well I hope I have better luck. Also, we don’t have the red mites that live in the coop. Those seem particularly tough to be rid of. 😳

Elector PSP? Online, and I imagine from farm stores as well. I got my dose from the Chicken Chick because I didn’t want to fork over the money for an entire bottle.

That color looks good on her 😉 I have my fingers crossed!

Yup, that was another option. On the pros/cons list, permethrin required two applications, and gloves because it’s toxic on contact. Meanwhile Elector is safe to the touch and supposedly does the deed in one go. I’ll report back on the most important part: does it work.

Yah for sure I was in peels of laughter as well. I’ll let you know how treatment goes! Elector psp has great reviews.

I checked in on them in the coop a short while ago, and everyone is nice and dry now. It’s also the cleanest set of bums I have ever seen.