I have several wyandottes... one of them, my golden laced, has a full single comb! I was totally perplexed... it is most certainly a hen as she lays eggs... but I guess she's a mutt or a mutation... wait and see!
It is cute! It might be a "mutt". It happens at feed stores... when a chicken expresses a gene that has been dormant for a long time but came from long ago...
I have a wyandotte hen with a full comb! Obviously that isn't supposed to happen... but it did! It also looks like a buff...
Can someone help me with this? I found it yesterday under the area my chicken roost when I was cleaning the coop (poop zone). I have 4 hens... I have noticed that occasionally this spring one of them has had eggs without shells and they are in the "poop zone" not the nest box. All my hens...
I have 4 hens. They are 10 months old. They were all laying regularly... Albeit smaller pullet eggs. One went broody. I took her off nest and put her in a rabbit cage next to run so she would stop her brood and still be near her flock. She's been back with flock now for two weeks. Problem...
My buff orp is a sweet hen. She went broody last week- now she's up and about. But... Instead of making her normal clucking sound, it's like she lost her voice or something. She is making this distinct clipped, single note honk sound. It's WIERD! Her comb is a darker but otherwise I can't see...
I have introduced new chicks to older hens and I've been successful... but it took time.
I got my chick and when it was old enough to be out of the brooder, I built a small area out of pvc covered with chicken wire and put it next to my other hens run. That way they saw each other every day...