Recent content by RobinS1217

We have around 30 chickens. I was told to feed each laying hen 1 lb per week. They free range around the yard and compost pile 2-4 hours a day dependent on weather, otherwise they’re in their run where the can dig and scratch and eat their feee freely. It ends up being 35lb a week. In the...

Even the involuntary dance? My friend said gapeworm but I’m not seeing any of that mentioned in fellow post.

Thanks for your response! I feed them dumor organic crumbles. It totals out to 40 lbs per week for 32 birds. I also have been supplementing with black sunflower seeds and worms totaling 1-2 cups per day. They get an handful of raw oats when we want them put up before we leave the house.

I’ve tried looking for answers before posting but as I don’t even have a clue what’s wrong with Fluffy- it’s hard to search. I was outside in the runs at the coop doing weekly big clean out(removing feathers, changing bedding, refreshing sweetpdz, cleaning and filling waters and feeders) and I...

I expected it from my older birds. In my 3 humble years I’ve noted they lay through their first winter as normal. However, for this bird that isn’t the case! I have been hatching with this timeline in mind with the agenda to always have 1/3 - 1/2 hatching. I’ll have to count her out I suppose...

Hoping for input! We hatched out some of our eggs under a broody hen in April. One of the chicks became our beautiful EE, Hopper, born on easter morning! She has been laying green eggs, good sized, decent hardness of shell about 4 a week for 2 months. Our temperatures dropped this week and I’m...

Wellsummer/speckled Sussex? they do. The door slides closed. It sticks so although possible it would be hard work for a predator. We’ve kept chickens for 3 years and not had a problem. This is where are chickens stay from 3-12 weeks then they move into the much larger run and coops which we’ve...

Barring? Is that breed? As long as it’s a pullet- I won’t be mad whatever’s breed it is lok

I sure hope so.

Oh really! Well she was from Ace hardware so likely it was mistagged. What else would she be if not just bad coloring?

Cockerel? Pullet?

Is this EE a roo then?! This comb development is too much although light pink at 8w.

She is back to health!!! I think the ammonia was the issue. After 2-3 days of being in grass in a run with a bigger cleaner coop (coffee grounds, not pine shavings) and straight dose NutriDense and save a chick in the water with yolk being fed to her often- her tail feathers went up, she stayed...

of the poop I saw from her yesterday, there is no visible blood. I’ve been feeding her yolks and giving direct NutriDense and yesterday did save a chick in her water. She also has the change of environment which could be working in her favor. She definitely is improving. But I’m still...

We both dread the idea of it. She wears my coop boots when she is here. But I know shoes isn’t the only way of transmission. I will begin treatment today.