Posts by gallusdomesticus

A hen will lay one egg every 25 hrs to begin with and occassionally skip a day.  After the second year, her egg laying drops off at a rather consistent rate of about 10% a year.  Here's a good article on egg...

Here is an interesting article on how chickens see.  It appears they have better color vision than us but worse night vision (which we know)http://www.livescience.com/8099-chickens-color-humans.html

Some birds lose feathers due to fecal scalding of their skin.  Does she have poop that sticks to her feathers?  I had a wyandotte that always had a poop covered bottom that lost feathers if I didn't clean it off regularly.

The link below is a short video of a a Chinese woman whose hen layed an egg of 4.5ozs and 4 inches in diameter.  It's in Italian but worth the view.  She says that she just feeds her hens rice and wheat and had never seen such...

Here is an article about toxins in corn feed produced by mold that may be helpful.http://www.extension.umn.edu/issues/lateharvest/poultry.htmlIt appears to have a detrimental effect on the bird's health but is not necessarily fatal.

It's great news if you can avoid surgery.  I hope she pulls through with flying colors!

If you google a search on bromethelin (which is sold as a one bite rodent poison), you'll find out that a number of studies have been done on secondary poisoning issues involving raptors eating dead mice or rats.  The rodent dies so...

My hen's oviduct surgery was $430.  Since she was a favorite pet, I paid it but realize it may seem an excessive amount of money.  My vet said that the greatest risk in surgery on a chicken, or any bird, is they are very...

Unfortunately, I don't think the antibiotics will solve your hen's problem. If she has EYP, the egg mass is in her abdomen and her body will identify it as a foreign body and attack it with white blood cells.  Antibiotics will...

Is her crop full?  She could have an obstruction in her digestive system.