In my dreams I will win the lottery and have lots of space for chickens with a bachelor coop! But for now, I can only have one coop. We aren’t especially looking the breed them, but you have a good point about egg colors if we do decide to. We have some Americaunas.
I think we’re mostly...
Yes, the roosters are t challenging each other, so I think I have some time. I just get worried they’ll hurt each other. I guess as long as I figure it out before they get physical it will be okay.
I have two roosters and only space for one. I’m leaning toward keeping the OE, but I’m not sure if I’m making the right choice.
Profiles:
BCM:
+ 1.5 years old
+ pretty coloring
+ softer crow
+ gentle
- over mated all the hens last year
- not a great defender of the girls
- feathers on feet...
I checked her crop this morning and it felt normal and small.
I don’t think it feels like air. I’m not totally sure what an abscess feels like, but it feels firm (but not hard). It doesn’t feel like what I suspect fluid would feel like.
It’s the thigh/belly/rump. Her left leg is down and her right leg is held up in the towel.
We trimmed some of the feathers under her vent since they were getting poop on them. We noticed feather loss from a rooster earlier this year, but that seems to be getting better. I didn’t see any...
It doesn’t feel sloshy but it does have some give to it. It’s not hard.
They get all flock and have access to oyster shells and eggshells. They gets various treats (spinach, sprouted lentils, Fly Fiesta, scratch [corn, oats, sunflower seeds, flax millet]. We mixed a big batch of scratch and now...
I have a 1.5ish year old RIR hen that has developed swellings. I was wondering about as it’s, but she’s so young. Also, it almost seems that there are two swellings with one of them being the smaller, redder area. She seems normal otherwise. Red combs, normal stance. She hasn’t been laying...
Hello,
I have four 9-week old chicks I’m integrating into a flock of 6 1-year-olds (including 1 rooster). We built a separate compartment for the chicks so that they could be in the run but separated. For the past week, we’ve been putting them out during the day and bringing them in at night...
I’ve noticed several of my hens are laying eggs that have some darker spots on them. It almost looks like the marks are inside the shell.
I noticed this seemed to start around when the weather got colder. Could it have something to do with condensation maybe? The eggs seem normal when I open...