Recent content by amberlkuntz

Great! Thanks! The kids and I have named that hen "Lemon" and I just make sure to not give her eggs to anybody, we eat them ourselves.

I just read about it and we have none of the respiratory or physical head signs and this has been happening for probably about 8 months since they started laying.

Protein is 17%. I took out all treats and fodder once grass started turning green and bugs were out.

That looks just like the eggs we have been getting from one of our hens. It is weird. I have tried the booster and such and no great amazing results so I have resorted to it is just how she is. Her eggs are always on the small to medium size while the others the same breed and age are always...

I have 2 breeds of chickens that I got a year ago (9 Welsummers and 3 Olive Eggers) as chicks. We were allowing our chickens in our garden this fall/winter and in December our neighbor's dog came over and attacked. He pulled a couple tail feathers out of 1 Olive Egger, a couple back feathers...

The Kalmbach that I am switching to has 17% crude protein and it says Calcium Min is 3.5% and Calcium Max is 4.5%. The one I have been giving them since December (Purina Home Grown) has 16% crude protein and Calcium Min is 3% and Max is 4%.

It is called Layer Boost. It has extra vitamin D and marigold in it as well as some probiotics. I gave the girls way too many treats this winter so have backed off on them. So they get their feed (I was using Purina and am in the process of switching to Kalmbach feed). They have grit and oyster...

Thank you! I have 1 hen that lays the light color with the dark spots, the other 7 lay dark colored eggs, and then this one that lays the light colored eggs that are always rough. I thought too much calcium as well, but does seem weird that she had 2 eggs that were thin. They definitely had a...

FYI - I tried the coconut oil on their combs and wattles and now that winter has passed (still dry out here in central Kansas), but their combs and wattles look great now!

I have some Welsummer hens (they will be a year old the end of this month) and one of the 9 lays this odd light colored egg. She has always laid this color of egg. The eggs also always have a rougher texture especially on the smaller end of them. All the other hens lay a dark colored egg (as...

Ok thank you! I haven't done anything to them yet tonight so I will try the coconut oil for a couple days and see what happens. If it gets worse then I'll give the cream a try. They are hard to catch so can only get them when they go in to roost at night.

This is my first flock. I have 14 hens and after a dog attacked them in November, we were having issues with them pulling feathers off each other and eating them. I have 6 hens with bare backs from this (I don't have a rooster). So I read about putting pinless peepers on them to break them of...

So I had started a thread back in July about a chicken (my kids so kindly named Miss No Neck) that was holding her neck in after a high temp 4th of July weekend here in Kansas (the grey one by the fence on the right side of the picture). We ended up putting her back in with her friends a few...

Will coconut oil help with sour crop? She is still pooping so could it still be impacted crop?

I didn't see your post until really late last night so I didn't take their food out of their coop. We caught her this morning (she is fast!) and her crop felt hard (it has never felt like that before it has always been squishy when I have felt it the last few days). We put her in a crate so she...