Recent content by chickentikka

She is a total lemon! She is about a year and a half. I don't monitor things real closely, but my impression is that she doesn't "lay" quite as often as the other girls do. She belongs to my daughter (of course) and does do her part by pooping on and shredding dry leaves for my husband's...

I've got a speckled sussex that has never laid a regular egg - I just get nest-ruining globs depending on how much they gobble up. Happily, it hasn't turned the rest of the flock into egg eaters. I don't hold out any hope of "fixing" her; I just can't imagine that nutrition is a problem as we...

Thank you both for the calming words! This is our third batch and I just haven't seen anything like it - she really shakes her tail fluff! Interesting theory on keeping the nest clean. Thanks again!

I've got a sweet, seemingly very healthy light brahma chick that is about 2 weeks old and she shimmies backwards - a good 6 inches or so - every time she poops! Has anybody seen this or know what could be going on? It is really funny but I'm a little worried that there could be some sort of...

Thanks, all, for the replies. The weather has been so profoundly unusual that I was wondering if conditions might allow for a new strain they haven't been exposed to, to 'pop up.' Having never seen lining, I have little confidence in my ability to discern between the two! However, the pics I...

I found an alarming poop yesterday morning (looked like blood, not lining, but I could be wrong). My 5 hens (about 1.5 years) are all acting normally and all had a non-bloody poop when they were let out of the coop this morning. Once you have a major coccidiosis build up that would cause...