I've been watching and it looks like feather picking because I see blood on the feathers below it. I either need to find the culprit or put those chickens in their own pen. I'm picking up lentils and scrambling some eggs for protein. I think they need more roosting area since they've grown so much.
10mo old chicks are moulting during the last week in Dec!!! We've been lucky in NEOhio and have only had one snowfall. Why is this happening? They are so young and it's not fall. 🤷♀️
7 chicks variety of breeds. Still getting 6-7 eggs dailt.
I have 7 chickens. Two are definitely green egg layers. Sometimes I get 7 eggs but only one is green. Can chickens produce green one day then light brown the next??
Same!! I grew up with chickens and my son (20) decided to raise 7 chickens from day-old poultry. I've never seen this process because our hens took care of the chicks. I have yet to see a pecking order. At 10 weeks old they don't peck each other and have no hierarchy on the (single) roost. There...