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This morning when I checked for eggs, I found a very large one. It's even bigger than the large grocery store eggs. My chickens are just coming into their sixth month. The top egg is from today, and the bottom one is one of the first eggs. I'm surprised that a young hen would lay such a big egg!

I would like to use the branches from our trees for roosting. We have mesquite, Palo Verde and Tree of Heaven. I'm concerned about whether they are toxic. The Tree of Heaven has been listed as both safe and toxic. Has anyone else used these?

I saw an illustration for scare wire around a chicken fence. Is there any place I can find how to put this on my coop and run? What kind of insulation and wire should I use?

This morning when I took the dogs for their walk, I notice two javalina by my chicken coop. The ran when they saw me. The run had been pushed away from the coop, one of the access doors was pushed in, and the feeder and drinker were knocked over. The chickens were unharmed and stayed in their...

I'm DeAz and I have three Easter egger pullets. They are my first chickens and I got them from the hatchery last June. I recently moved them to their coop, and they seem to like it. I'm recently retired and I'm a caregiver for my father. I also have a cockatiel, a cat and two dogs.