This is a nine week Black Copper Marans. It has had its comb and wattles for a few weeks now, its sister is visible below. They're both the same age, this one just matured super fast. I haven't noticed any attempts to start crowing. Is this a pullet? I've seen some Marans that look like this and...
I just came home and saw one of my pullets was a little... bloody. I have my cockerel quarantined primarily because he was eating eggs. I have picked her up and I took the pictures below; I also put her in a 4'x4'x3' box to protect her from the other pullets to allow her to heal.
She's been...
I have a problem with eggs being eaten also. Unfortunately I don't know how many eggs are being laid daily (seeing as it is winter) so I can't assess "how bad" it is. I got 2 eggs from my 5 hens today and a third egg shell was on the ground. The eggs were cold so they were layed a while ago.
I'm at my wits end! HELP! I have 5 pullets (6 months old) and one cockerel (same age). I got my first egg on November 14th 2011, I've been getting one egg a day for the most part. I've been finding a lot of shells and eaten eggs in the coop lately. During the christmas break I spent a lot of...
Checked on my girls this evening for eggs and saw two. Picked them up and immediately I noticed a difference. This egg felt wrinkled, it was spotty (none of my egg layers have ever produced a spotted egg) and the sounds it made were very different. When I moved my fingers around it I got the...
I put oyster shells in their coop they didn't really eat much of it *shrugs* They're not eating the entire egg either and the shells from the remnants are very firm, which is making me doubt the fact that there is a calcium deficiency. Hopefully I'll know in a few days if the oyster shells are...
My girl(s) have been eating their eggs lately. I'm giving them layer pellets mixed with grower crumbles (Don't want to hurt the rooster). They haven't been eating BOSS as much, but they devour apples and what not. I've noticed that they have been throwing their food all over (new feeding...