Posts by TheHenHen

I have 21 chickens, 5 ISA Browns, 2 Black Stars, 4 Barred Plymouth Rocks, 4 Silver Laced, 3 Colombian Wyandottes, and 3 Rhode Island Reds.

Hello, my Colombian Wyandottes, Silver Laced Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds, are laying medium sized eggs. They started laying at the end of November last year, I'm pretty sure they should be laying bigger eggs by now.

Bump :)

Hello, I found one of my chickens  had a toe that looked like it was swollen, and the nail sunk in like a pillow. I saw that the toe was shorter than the other, so something really painful must have happened. the two middle nails...

Hello, I have two goats, and one of them is shaking her neck, scratching herself with her teeth, she has even been rubbing herself up against their barn. She may have some sort of bug biting her skin, but I don't know for sure. I...

Hello, I have some hens that are 8 mos old. We have two roosters, and for a while now, I've been wondering when will my roosters start realizing that they have to give food to the ones that are sitting on eggs for 25 or 24 days. I'm...

I'll feed her some of the oyster shell each day. See if that helps! Thank you!!

Hello, I found one of my ISA Browns in one of my nesting boxes. I found this white chip like thing beside her and stuck to her bum. Here is the picture of the chip. I also found a broken frozen egg like thing splattered all over the...

Hello, I had a ISA Brown that died, I think because of being Egg Bound. Some of my other ISA Browns have died as well from being Egg Bound. In case any other of my other hens get Egg Bound, I was wondering if you can cure Egg Bound,...

Quote: Originally Posted by missnu01   If you think it is frostbite you can put some vaseline on her comb and wattles...it won't heal anything that has happened so far, but will keep her from getting frostbite...