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I asked him again. He said: "Well, I'm 100% sure she's purebred. But my personal experience with white chickens is that they're always a little behind or don't develop quite as well as the others."

Thanks for your answer! No, I haven't weighed them, but I picked them up and she is definitely lighter. I mean, the height of her is the same, but she has less muscles. The guy from whom I bought them, said he only owned Jerseys when they hatched naturally and then these 3 blacks hatched and...

Hi there! I bought 4 Jersey Giant hens in March. They are from natural breeding and siblings. Now they are 11 months old. I've got 3 black ones and one white one. But why is my white hen so slim? Is she still gaining mass? Is she just growing slower? In comparison you can see one of my giant...

Now it's official! This one is a guinea egg. Just saw my Petra laying it into a chicken's nest.

We feed our chickens their own shells which we break before so that they have enough calcium for their eggs.

No, I don't, as all of the chicken roosters we butchered had little stones in their stomach. Should I?

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences! This is very valuable information for me :)

As the shell should be really hard to break, I beat it with my finger nail, but it cracked a bit. That's why I put it into my pan. And as you can see, the yolk looks completely different.

And this one? It weighs only 30 g. I just found it. We've never found an egg here before which was that little. It was in one of our chicken nests.

Is the texture uneven? There are little dots on the shell. Can you feel them with your fingers?

Thanks. Looks to me like a normal chicken egg.

The left one is a Marans egg (65g) and the right one the unknown type of egg (55g). Or is it perhaps a Sundheimer or a Jersey Giant egg since we have these races since recently. I know, guineas should lay their eggs outside the coop but perhaps my guinea lady doesn't? :) Greetings :)

I got guineas because I was told that they keep away the hawk. We had a lot of hawk attacks in the past. Since I have my two guineas, the hawk wasn't successful since then and that is 3 months now. I even saw a hawk coming once and when the guineas started to scream it flew away. And I'm going...

These are my favorite photos cuz both of them look so cute on them that I wanna cuddle them. But for this they are too shy. Fortunately, I managed to get both of them to go into the coop on their own after one month of hard training. Before that, they were even more shy. Schorsch (grey one) and...

They did go in again :)