I know this exact question has been asked. But the threads are from 2007 and 2008. So I thought it best to ask again.
We are thinking of moving to Weymouth MA. This isn't definite. What process do we have to go through to keep our chickens?
Is there any limit? We currently have 12 hens and a roo.
It's hard to tell & impossible to get a good picture of but at least two of our sex link hens have much larger right breasts. It's odd.
We figure it's because they're production hens & weren't bred for their looks. We still love the goofy looking girls!
Brief update, last night Snowball was up on the perch with the rest of the chickens when I closed them up for the evening. I see that as positive progress.
Hey there. We do add crushed oyster shells to their food. She's definitely on the lower end of the pecking order that I can tell. The other chickens perch on the roost but she sleeps in a nest box.
When we bought her at the local farm, they were all in big tent/hut thing with no perches only...
Is this molting, hen pecking or stress?
Our sex link Snowball is looking rough. Bare or broken feathers on her wings & chest.
Her wing feathers are bare in places.
One of our young sex links, Cinnamon, is biting our rooster Luke on his beak, comb and wattle. She's relentless. It's like she's hen pecking him! He's starting to look rough.
This is new behavior that we can tell. It might be in reaction to the four new hens we just added to his flock. I'll...
Our other rooster Bo is tough on his flock. They all have bare-ish necks & he tore up their back feathers.
So we bought these Hen Savers to protect their backs.
We just got our roo, Luke, four new hens, all red sex links. He had three young hens already, two olive eggers & a sex link named Cinnamon who seems to be in charge. Now he has seven hens. We just added the four new hens & they're easily figuring it out. There's been some wing flapping but no...