I have a hen that today when I was checking for eggs stood up and had a red, bulbous portrusion from her vent. I let her be, and came in to research. It looked like pictures of a prolapsed vent. So I isolated her and watched her a while. She was squating in a nest in her isolation crate, but...
I saw another thread regarding fowl pox and it looked much more severe than what our guy and girls have, but I wanted to be sure...Our fabulous rooster Zoltar Rex has the worst of it thus far.
The girls have much smaller spots that are barely noticable, yesterday was the first day we saw...
So the title tells the tale...we are wanting to hatch some offspring of our EE Rooster, Zoltar. He is a magnificent dude, if I do say so myself, but since he is a "dude" we aren't getting the colorful egg variety we had hoped for (the only EE chick we got). Our hens are buff, RIR and...
I am new to having chickens, and I have a hen whose tail feathers are a little longer and have some beautiful irridescence to them...She's an easter egger though so this may be normal. Her comb is a little more red and fleshy than the others as well...and then there's her beard (hahaha). They...
I've finally convinced my husband to convert our large dog house (which the dog never uses) into a coop, by raising it up, adding some user-friendly doors on one side and a nesting box on the other. We'll also provide a large run for our small flock (4 hens) to hang out in when they aren't free...