One additional question: this is Oprah (she came with the name) her face goes from this to full red often, at least 10 times or so since I got them back in late sprin/early summer. Any idea why?
Just giving an update. She passed. I have since dewormed, given amoxicillin powder and treated the whole flock for cocci, in that sequence. It seemed the only way to get control of the situation.after the last day of cocci treatment, one of the hens wasn't acting herself and partially passed a...
They should all be between 2 and 3. The family was moving across the state and didn't want to chance stressing all the birds during the move so gave half to me and half to another family. I don't know the other family to ask if they are having the same issues.
So I didn't know how to navigate the page so just seeing these responses. I have an update, then I'll give more details about the flock. I have 17 hens now. I lost another one to sour/impacted crop. There is another one isolated at the moment that seemed to have impacted crop...well, I found a...
Y'all...I'm overwhelmed. Received 20 mature hens in March. All has been fine. Good feed. Free range a large enclosed yard all day. Fresh water daily and self feeding water in the run. Clean nesting and roosting, mint added to their nest. DE in the coop to keep mites away and keep things clean...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.