Recent content by katesara

Thanks!! So hearing the temp of my climate is fine…probably true, but worried about her solo. She is as protected as others from predators, but visible I guess is the only thing. We had another thought, since I can’t get her to go in with flock, what if we locked all the hens out of the sleeping...

Thanks! Adding follow up below…

I have original flock of 7 hens and a hen who was orphaned as baby, now is laying eggs… “Baby” seems to get along fine with flock in daytime, especially in open spaces, but she does keep to herself and is very skittish. At night the chickens go to bed in a protected wire house, and a wooden...

I have one single orphan chick, she is 8 weeks? maybe 10? She is still not full size...and her sisters and mama were killed by predator, when she was 5 weeks... My flock is 7 full size hens, and now this little one who is barely hanging with them. During daytime she is fine, there is a huge free...

Sorry to be clear, all my hens lay in the nest boxes almost always....so I do search the open yard, but it's super rare that I've seen an egg laid out there...

She seems better now! I still am watching to see, does she have some infection? She looks good, her poop is looking more normal and formed Does she have Egg Yolk Peri ?? Assuming she might, due to regularity of egg misshaps... So my next questions, it seems like my birds (1 year) were all...

thought she was going to die last night, this morning she was still alive, we preppared for next steps...then I went down and saw she had layed 2 HUGE eggs, one double yolker triple sized egg, and one big soft shell. She then perked up a bit, but still assuming she might be sick or have...

1 year old hen, yesterday she looked puffed up, hunched, walked slow to hide in bushes.... she has runny poop drips basically, white and yellow thick ooze like. The day before (one day ago) she layed an egg and seemed healthy. That said someone in my flock of 8 tends to have soft shell eggs or...