Posts by akmcgrory

Our rooster is very friendly and responds to the name "Brownie". We thought he was a girl as a baby and it ended up he wasn't. We love him and he is beautiful, but he's just too loud. We don't want to anger our neighbors. Today he...

Oh and try yogurt! Plain yogurt, and the Greek kind has more protein. That may help.

I had virtually the same thing happen to my EE. It started when the weather got too warm. Now she pretends to lay an egg everyday and nothing happens. She also mini molted after the egg incident and hasn't laid anything for going on...

I have an approx 18 week old LO hen and she has begun tripping over things and falling over. She even will eat laying down, although she is not over weight and feels light to pick up. It has been very hot here and the other chicks with...

I freeze water bottles and orange juice sized bottles. I keep them in the chest freezer and then when it gets really hot I lay them on the ground for the chickens too snuggle with. My LO and RSL love it. I am also able to put a frozen...

Just found this....http://www.thebackyardchickencoop.com/chickens-and-pumpkins-from-the-garden-after-halloween/ Thought it was interesting.....

I suspected this as well. I added the pepper to their water. I did it before in the winter when I had a sick bird and it perked her up, but she still didn't make it. There are so many flies, so maybe it is worms. I use DE and clean...

Oh and the hens are approx 11 mos old.

I have an EE who lays soft shelled eggs. One got broken inside and I had to manually pull the shell out. She then went into a short molt, and did lay another egg for like 3 weeks. She laid a few hard eggs and then I started finding...

I lost a hen who had similar symptoms although she did begin to eat.....she just lost too much weight. I added cayenne pepper to her water as a dewormer....just enough to make the water pinkish red....she was eating in 24 hours....does...