Recent content by mariel37

For 3 days, we've quarantined our Sexlink hen. Droopy, grey-maroon comb, looks dark around her face. Not moving well, puts her right wing out. Yesterday, she would stick her right leg out behind her. Eating well, but decreasing today, eating for short bursts. Just now, I hear a very faint rasp...

I would assume it's an act of territorial dominance. My dogs do this. One will lay about three feet from the food bowl. Just lay there, and I can just "see" her daring the others to cross this line. Another dog will just flat out lay across the doorway to the food room. I always have to...

Oh my - you all are so helpful. I have Lucy, a BO, who has been over-mated (Roo likes blondes?) her back had become bald and rough, so I put a saddle on her a week ago. She has, on and off over the last few months, gotten really fluffy and very hoarse. I give her anti-biotics and or...

To get our flock to go into the coop at night to go to bed, we used a camping lantern. Put it in the coop, turned it on at dusk. They'd all go in and settle on their perches. Then we'd take the lamp out for the night. We only had to do this for three nights - now they go in on their own at...

Donrae - What is it you do on the second offense? I have a Silver Cuckoo Maran rooster in with all our hens. He has fluffed up at me in the past a couple times, and I grab him and carry him around a while. He stops. This past week he has fluffed at me and appeared aggressive. I carry a...

Sharon - thank you for your response. A hen saddle, hhhmmm? I may have to do that, because Liza (our surprise rooster, hence the name) does seem to go after those two more than anyone else. Just about 10 minutes ago, we took Lucy (the victim) out of the coop/run and let HER free-range, and...

Have 7 hens, 1 rooster in my flock. Here's my QUESTION: Once a member of the flock is deemed "sick" or "weak" and the others peck at her, and once the hen is healthy again, does the flock quit picking on her? While letting them out of the run to free-range a few days ago, I looked out...

I have two Buff Orpington hens - and yep ... they look like your picture. :)

ooh - Horatio is so handsome!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My solution? Get rid of the hubby. Keep the roo.

Dusty Chicken - are you in our coop and run every morning? Our rooster (Silver Cuckoo Maran) does the same thing, and I had to laugh at your description of the hens not wanting to be the first one out of the coop. There are days when our hens don't fly down off the perches for a couple...

Yogurt may be a good treat for her ... might put some flora in her system???

That happened to us a few weeks ago. Stella, one of our Silver Wyandottes (and the first chick I chose at the feed store out of the bin) was fine one morning. Two hours later I went out to the coop to give them some treats and she was dead - right in front of the pop door. No feathers, no...

We have two buff orpingtons and a golden wyandotte who lay tan eggs - about half the time we get the beautiful speckles like the picture you posted, but I don't know which one is doing it. I wouldn't worry about it - enjoy the artwork!

My EE lays green eggs.