Recent content by gratefulmags

My hen that I talked about doing this keeps getting more and more frequent and it's the only sound she makes. She's also developed a strange breathing pattern. Not struggling to breath just a strange pattern. She doesn't show any other problems. My husband and I think something developed...

https://instagram.com/p/BEO1fv8zLD1/ Hoping this link works. I'm having the same problem with a welsummer hen. She has a pretty decent area to roam with a few protected areas overhead, grassy areas, and a garden. She never makes a different noise either and we aren't sure if she lays. Lol. She...

Update: my hen seems to be laying on a nest of 9 now. She rarely gets up (especially in the last three days) that I see. We don't have any experience with raising poults or chicks out except for in a brooder. As far as the other hen, if she has eggs in the nest that hatch, will she help or...

Thank you for all the replys! @Modernsettlers that is exactly how our turkeys look while mating! Lol. The stomping on the back tho!!! Lol gaf is right!

Hello from nw Ohio! we have one 14-month-old bourbon red Tom and one hen of the same age. We also have one blue Slate hen that will be 1 year in July. Last spring the red hen started laying and she resumed again about a month ago. Both hens lay daily. The Tom has been trying to mate with both...

I'm having a similar problem. Almost two weeks old and we've lost 5 now. No symptoms that I can see. This is our third time raising them and the first year we've lost any.

Yes. Eggcessive. I believe it was a lash egg we found. Thank you for the article reference. I wasn't able to take any pictures because my hands were contaminated and my phone was too far away. LOL. We are with our hens a lot but having so many, we could've missed a day or two of symptoms. I'll...

Hello, I've been on this site for quite awhile just reading posts. Today I went out to check for eggs in the afternoon and found one of our pullets face down dead. There was no apparent external damage and no fluid sepage. We did a necropsy and found that she had a large mass of what looked...