Posts by larsonll

Do nothing if it doesn't seem to affect him.  I have a hen with a broken toe for over a year and she is fine but looks funny!

My OE game hen has a broken toe (healed) for over a year and she is fine.  Watch for infection until it heals, but they are very adaptable and will do fine with a healed broken toe!

She sounds broody.  I was worried like this when my Maran did the same thing.  I could even push her off the nest and she would lie face down like she was paralyzed.  I came to this forum for help and watched the Youtube...

I have 5 hens and only feed and water in the run.  It keeps my hen house, a converted doll house my daughters outgrew, cleaner.  We keep the hen house door open to the run in the summer and most of the winter except with...

I keep everything for my 5 hens in a big Rubbermaid trash can with a lid next to the run.  The bag of feed, scoop, bag of DE, Oyster shell bag, grit, all goes into the trash can.  No troubles in over a year, and nothing has...

I don't think so!

The green under the skin looks like blood to me.  I am a human wound physician and that's what it looks like right now.  Infection setting in this soon is unusual.

All of my little flock of five hens have had this recently, I discovered, about two months ago.  I unroofed several of these scabs, without any pus or purulence noted.  This made me think that I was performing unnecessary...

My Wheaten Maran is the most broody of my hens and by far the lowest in productivity.  I'd tell you to still be patient.  Does she seem broody at all? Nesting a lot?  Mine nested for 2 months and puffed up and growled at...

Quote: Originally Posted by jeepgurl  I have had the same conversation with people at work. Some said they would never eat them. So I made a quiche, brought it to work, and placed it in the breakroom. That quiche was...