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I came home to find a teeny egg way darker and more spotted than any of our laying 2yr hens have ever layed.This egg was also in the nest box that they never use.My other still small are 15weeks and dont even have mature combs and wattels....what are the odds its from a younster?!

Good grief I'm kinda in a pickle our broody hen(first time mom.we found her sitting after vacation so just left her after candeling eggs and seeing veins ) ended up with extra eggs under her here and there and after 2 hatched We had to remove the chicks so she would sit on the others.I had been...

Good grief I'm kinda in a pickle our broody hen(first time mom.we found her sitting after vacation so just left her after candeling eggs and seeing veins ) ended up with extra eggs under her here and there and after 2 hatched We had to remove the chicks so she would sit on the others.I had been...

Hey Astrolarp fans I would love some input.We have a surplus of 3week old black Astrolarp chicks.I have a friends with three fabulous gentle children and they want chickens bad!Space and money is limited and i I have a rabbit hutch I can give them.I wanted to give them 3hens but the little boy...

hope this makes someone laugh like I did

aer these weasle parts?? We lost 1 of our 5 hens 3 nights ago. when I found her head had been chewed up and the poor roosters tail feathers had been pulled out in the fight. I figured it was a weasel thinking a raccoon or possum would have done more damage to my rooster. since then I have been...

other than the obvious answer to get to the other side...do you know why the chicken crossed the road?

so in my search for minimizing feed cost I have come acrossed 2 things that seem a little iffy but a lot of people are doing it. 1 option is to feed maggots :-\ the easiest way I have seen was to hang a 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in the bottom on a tripod and place inside meat scraps and...

Foghorn Leghorn is about 8 months old now and has become very aggressive in the last month. some days if I walk around him with my head down I can manage not to get flogged but as a general rule I expect to get my legs flogged when I'm in the backyard expescially in the chicken coop getting...

http://blog.meyerhatchery.com/?p=591 fun n easy i had to share post pictures if u make one plz :-)

white wing his wings are turning red now :-( so hoped his new feathers would also be white

thank you for the upgrade BYC day old chicks first meal lol then a nap right in the chick starter

I have been shampoo free for most of 2012. I have tried a lot of different things. the latest and what seems like the best thing I've been using are eggs. the first time I tried it I used to egg yolks and a big spoon of honey ran it through my wet hair let it set and then wash it with baking...

Long story short yesterday after noticing an odd smell from one chick i discovered seeds in the bedding. I promptly removed all of the hay and chick starter from the box. gave them vinegar in there water and fasted them all night. this morning all of their crops were empty and the smelly beak...

While handling new chicks i noticed one had a funny smell when i held him close to my face.not rancid rotten but def abnormal. further reading i learned more about crops and noticed a few others have hard posably impacted crops! Reading eating grains or bedding can cause this :-( i am a bad...

I have 5 leg horn hens and 1 rooster. they are about 9 month old. I was actually planning on selling them because they were eating there own egg. after received my new chicks hatched November 13th the leghorns decided they did not want to be sold and started producing eggs! now I am going to...

I am a fairly new chicken owner we raised white leghorns in the spring and they we're all very uniform look almost exactly the same. we actually kept track of who was to by marking the tops of their heads with Crayola markers lol we ordered 8 chicks from Meyer hatchery and receive them in the...