Hello all,
I just started raising chickens on my own starting in April. For the past 4-5 months I've had a chicken die about once every 4-6 weeks. The symptoms seem to be the same. At first I thought I had an egg bound hen but then about a month later had another one die and so on. Just now...
That's what I originally suspected months ago! But.. that is my True Blue Whiting. Months ago I was getting one olive egg a day and I was a little disappointed my Whiting was laying an olive egg and not a blue. Then one day I got two olive eggs and was absolutely bamboozled. Did my Whiting lay...
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Newish chicken owner here and I was surprised to find two of my 8 or so barred rocks lay olive colored eggs. Attached are pictures of the hens. How common/uncommon is this? Maybe they aren't barred rocks? Any insight is greatly appreciated! In the pictures I uploaded are some Rhode Island...
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First time poster here. This chicken hatched April 25th and it is one of about 10 chickens I received. Not sure why, but it's comb has not gotten any bigger. It was smaller than all the others but has caught up and is now about the same size as the others but not laying and the comb is not...