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I'm not sure about the Rural King product, but if its "used" grounds - meaning the grounds left after coffee is brewed - the caffeine as well as most of the acid is in the customer's coffee cups. The grounds are safe around your birds.

Also, new layers don't always get it right the first few times. Sometimes the very first eggs are missing a part, like the shell or the yolk. Don't worry, it'll get sorted out within a week or two.

1. Chickens are born with all the eggs they will lay in their entire lives, which is a number that varies with breed, and within the breed it varies with the individual birds. Overall, the earlier they start laying, the earlier they will stop for good. Then you have another decision to make...

We have a recently matured 1/2 Buff Brahma and 1/2 Pure Bred White/Laced Red Cornish Rooster ready for re-homing. He is a dual purpose breeder. He is used to free range and will be more of a gentleman if he is allowed to continue to free range or have a large area to roam. Western Washington...

These will be mixed chicks of unknown breeds. And when I say we're in Washington, I mean for you to understand Washington STATE

I might have a neighbor with extra young cockerels, are you still interested?

Turns out there's only one cockerel. My husband has decided to keep him as a back up rooster. So sorry. Here's a picture of Leon and Leon Jr.

The chicks are 3 weeks old now. Officially have 2 cockerel chicks in need of re-homing. any takers? We're in Western WA.

I have 2 cockerel chicks in Western WA. They are 3 weeks old, raised by a mother hen. Half Plymouth Barred Rock, half Easter Eggers.

That's so cute to see, they pop out all over the place.

We're loving it so far, she's doing all the work! Here's one way to entertain growing chicks; piggy back rides!

Six of the chicks at 1 week. The 7th is just foraging elsewhere. Wing and tail feathers are coming in and some are growing combs faster than others (males?). I know about sight-sexing Barred Rock chicks, but these are half BR and half other things so it's hard to tell for sure. I guess we'll...

We took the eggs that didn't hatch, after a couple days. She wasn't spending as much time on the nest anymore, so I guess she decided they weren't good eggs or that she had enough kids to watch! I don't think she cares whether they're girl chicks or boy chicks. She's got them all moving...

Cleo sat on 21 eggs for 3 weeks and hatched 7 chicks over the weekend. We're so excited! Leon the Rooster is a full blooded Plymouth Barred Rock, so looking at the chicks we think we have mostly cockerels, but will wait until they're older to make final calls.

Another source of material is used coffee grounds from coffee stands. I have an agreement with 1 stand in our little town where I get all the grounds and I provide clean plastic buckets and rotate filled ones with empty ones a couple times a week. Buckets come from local grocery store bakeries...

Is that a candled pip picture?

Your County Extension Agent might be able to help

What's an internal pip?

I should have been clear. Broody hen joins flock for a few minutes once a day. She does make a lot of noise and rooster drops everything and runs to coop to check on her. I'll have to think about the ramp situation. There is a ramp to the ground that a young chick could not possibly figure...

I have a broody hen sitting on eggs in the coop. She joins the flock daily and the rooster defends the coop. Someone said a rooster/other hens will kill chicks and she needs to be separated from the flock while the chicks are small. Advice?