Posts by merryreader

I moved in December about 70 miles north in Maine. I packed 11 hens and a rooster in 2 covered cages in the back of my SUV and put them in a new henhouse that was all set up a head of time. I took my time not to rush them or chase...

Thank you. I was in denial wishing for the opposite.

I spent a couple of hours looking on line on a way to put down my hen w/o blood and w/o having to do anything inhumane. For the past year she has had a fallen crop. This spring she was dragging it on the ground and when I saw the sore I...

Just an update on my hen. She is still acting the same, poop is now normal and is eating and drinking good and doesn't seem in any pain. She will sometimes come out in the pen, but needs to prop her chest up against something. Maybe so...

Thanks again for that link. After reading through it, I think she may be an internal layer as her abdomen is firm and distended. I lubed her and felt for an egg, but didn't feel on w/i finger's reach. I put her in a solitary nest box for...

Thanks. I'm suspecting egg bound and am going to try some olive  oil in the vent and see what I can feel.  Merry

She's a four year old black australorp. She started acting different 2 days ago, hanging out by herself. Yesterday she acted like she was going to lay an egg in the outdoor pen, ruffling up her feathers and walking with her butt almost...

Babyface is special, gray and has wild, wicked look to her. I have saved her eggs and a few of another brownish aracauna hens eggs for about a week now and she looks to be starting to get broody. She spends all afternoon on the fake...

My rooster crows around 3 am. Sometimes a jet will be flying a bit low or a loud truck will go by. On a really moonlit night, he crows often, even I don't hear anything. Sometimes I shine a flashlight around to see if they are being...