Posts by LilyLovesBugs

That's funny! Mine is mini I think... She's little, I rescued her from a friend who got her from a feedstore, but she is so little compared to my silver penciled rock. But she isn't small enough to be bantam. She is really sweet, she...

That's nice she's laying! Barred Rocks are so cute!

I'm pretty sure it's not feather picking, they both drop their feathers and grow back new ones, and I've never seen the others pecking them (besides the little 'I'm the top of the pecking order' small pecks). One does have lice, but...

We have 9 hens, 3 are 1 year olds and the rest are 2 years. We get 1 or 2 eggs from the 2 year olds and 1 or 2 out of the 1 year olds. They have access to Purina Layena all the time, they always have fresh water, they get a...

One of my hens crows (she lays so I know for sure) the bottom picture looks like a rooster to me though.

If you go to the "what breed or gender is this" forum on here they should be able to tell you.

Mine does sometimes, they aren't super speckled but they do have some pretty white speckles once in awhile.

It is for sure a Brown Leghorn due to the white earlobes. If they were red he would be a Welsummer. He is quite handsome :o)

Ok thank you for all the replies! I'll start thinking at which one I would rather use.

I've read online some symptoms that chickens get when they have internal parasites, and my ladies a have a few of them. I would love to worm them and know that they are pretty healthy as far as parasites go, but I'm not sure...