Hi there - I have a question. My neighbor bought two dozen eggs of my free range eggs yesterday from me. They had been in the refrigerator when I gave them to her. They stayed in her car all day (mid 90s in Texas yesterday). She asked me if they were still good. I am not sure since I had them in...
Hi there. I think that one of my buffs had a heat stroke yesterday afternoon as it was 104 degrees here in Texas. When I found her she was very lethargic and panting. Unfortunately it looks like the other girls had been pecking on her head, as there is a bloody spot next to her comb. I was able...
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I'm curious, what is a feather guard? I don't think I have ever seen one. So far no blood, just a lot of pecking and pulling. She is a really pretty hen, maybe they are just jealous!
We have 14 hens...1 Barred Rock, 2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 Cuckoo Maran, and 10 EE's. Three of our EE's are younger, but the older "girls" have decided to continually pick at one of the younger ones. She has no feathers under her beak, and is missing several on her neck and upper shoulders where they...
Last Thursday morning around 10:00 we had our first hawk attack since we have had chickens (3 years). Unfortunately it got our only banty EE. I scared it off and got all our other 18 ladies in the coup. It didn't take her off but later I saw it sitting on the fence. We have about 3/4 an acre...
I am in Middle West Texas. Highs have been in the mid to upper 90s with high humidities. Will a wading pool work for a cool spot? They do have shady spots around the house , under the coop etc but maybe i need to get a fan maybe in the coop at night. The rest of the girls aren't showing any...
Hi, We have (or used to have 19) hens. EEs, Golden, Buff Orpingtons, Cuckoo Morans. I have lost one Buff and today lost one EE. The Buff started by standing by the waterer with her eyes closed. At first she would go back to grazing but eventually she wouldn't and died the next day. She was 15...
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Well, we lost the second hen over night, she was just too chewed on. Hubby went out this morning and put bricks infront of all holes under the fence. But I think we may have found the dog...When I was leaving this morning, there was a very small shepherd mix sitting at the...
Our neighbors have two small dogs and I wondered if maybe they got into our yard somehow and then the neighbors came and got them out when they realized where they were, but we didn't hear from our neighbors today...Just couldn't determine where the entry point would have been.
We are not sure what it was. I came home this evening about 7:30 and noticed feathers all around the yard. We had 26 chickens. I could tell immediately that one was dead and another was pretty hurt. Many are missing tail feathers and rump feathers. A few have gashes and punchure marks on their...
Hi there, I have a maran momma and 6 maran chicks (8-10 weeks old fully feathered). They are separate from our other 16 hens, but as the chicks are getting bigger and don't really fit under their momma anymore, I was wondering when it was safe to start letting them out with the other hens? Also...
Thank you all for your kind words, we do get pretty ones. Our "sprinkled" one is laid by a an EE that is grey/golden. She even tried to crow some early last fall. Our maran's eggs are really pretty, our temperature gets over a 100 here in West Texas, but they seem to be doing ok. They are...
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As my name implies, I live in Texas but now have 18 chicks instead of 15
Alittle background. We have 3 EE that are over a year old. In Feb of this year we brought home 6 EE, 3 Buff Orpingtons, and 3 Cuckoo Morans.
Things were going great until late April when our young 12 was...