My bearded lady laid an egg. She wants to be an indoor chicken badly lol

Thick work pants on. Bent down workin and didn’t see em. Penetrated my britches. If I coulda caught em I would be eatin him tonight.

I went to collect eggs today, and one was sitting in this. It appears to be egg white, color and consistency. The egg was not broken, and was totally normal inside after I cracked it. None of my hens are acting weird or seem to be having any kind of problem. Any ideas what this is / what caused it? All barred rocks, all have been laying at least 3 months.

This is Francis my rooster. This guy has made me think he’s dead 3 times now. Why does he do this? Once I right him, he acts completely normal. The 3 times have been weeks apart so it’s not like it’s been 3 days in a row.

I am planning on picking it up soon and wondered if anyone knew the dimensions of the removable panel? Just need to know if I will have to modify my coop to attach it. I tried Google, but couldn't find anything.

My wife reached me today concerned about one of our hens. She has a leg she isn't using and my wife is concerned that it's broken. She's definitely bottom of the pecking order and the emphatic "favorite" of our rooster, so she's pretty beat up just about all the time. According to my wife the leg is "loose" at the joint and "very wiggly" but I'm at work and haven't been able to see it for myself. She says photos don't give the idea, that it mostly looks fine.

The question is assuming it's a break what do we do? Is should we find a way to brace the leg, let it sit and heal on its own? We're also concerned about isolating the chicken to heal, that she might not re-integrate very well into the flock since she's already getting her a** kicked most days in and out.

We're both worried the answer is going to be to put the bird down. Any tips or recommendations would be appreciated. She's the friendliest girl we have (likely due to the aforementioned whoopings) and we'd be incredibly sad if this was the beginning of the end for her.

I opted to go for one big nesting box but put two separate openings on it. The openings are 10x10. It’s 14” tall at its highest and 11 inches tall in the back. Will these be good enough for 4 chicks? We have 2 Reds and 2 Jersey Giants.

My chickens are now 18 yo 19 weeks old. Shouldn’t they start laying soon?

I made a temporary coop from scraps i could find around the house. I'm actually kind of proud of it though its ghetto as heck. I wanted to make sure i was a "chicken girl" before investing too much.

I have now found another coop for a decent price used on facebook im going to pick up, which will likely be much better insulated for our cold iowa winter coming up.

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I'm not sure what to do with the old tractor style coop I built.. is it worth it to keep an extra around, maybe for chicks later? or if a hen gets sick or something?

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i currently have 4 ladies and dont plan on expanding too much but maybe 2 more in a few years to gear up for egg production reducing...

This’ll be Big Mama’s third batch. Her first was 5 Olive Eggers. All 5 matured but only 3 survived hatching. Her second was 7 Silkies. 3 matured but only 2 survived hatching. Her third batch, hidden above, is 12 large brown eggs (Brahma eggs mixed with some 1st gen EE eggs). They just went under yesterday, so I will check on them later in the week.

In her one-ish year of life she’s already brought so much more in. I’m so excited to see how she does with this clutch.

We ordered 2 leghorn roosters. Hoping to save money on eggs. Are leghorn roosters great layers, TIA. .

Fairly new to chickens. We have ten and recently there is egg residue on the 4-8 eggs in one of the nesting boxes. Never a trace of shell, usually just yolk and /or orange sticky goop on the eggs and some wet straw. Is it likely one eating an egg? If so, are they literally devouring every speck of shell? I plan to go golf ball route starting tonight, to see if it helps.

Thanks for any discussion!

They carved their first pumpkin!

Was at a farm expo and met a person who bred and kept seramas for profit, the guy said they need to be small spaces and they should be separated from one another. All this stuff just doesn't sound right as I do heavy research when I keep pets.

She’s a small lady, but her eggs are as big as my ducks eggs and more than half the time, she lays twins, you know like two yolks in one shell, so she’ll lay two eggs at a time, and most the time one of those two eggs has two yolks Anyone else have this happen? Is it normal for leghorns?

Why is this a thing and how is it a thing?

Where does everyone get their coops? I started off with a cheap prefab for around $300 but it's getting tight (only have 4 birds). I want to upgrade them but the amish ones I just looked at are like 3 grand at least. Is there anything in between? I don't have time to build my own from scratch, hoping for some medium compromise in terms of quality and price.