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...
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...