Recent content by dfullert

Thanks. These are my first chickens and I’m a worrier.

Hello! My Speckled Sussex hen is 27 weeks old. She’s been laying for a few weeks. She’s had this wound on her comb for at least a week or two. It seems to be healing. Her tail has been looking scraggly, too, like she isn’t grooming it. She’s been the boss hen around here. I haven’t noticed any...

Update: You guys were right. She figured it out on her own. Thanks for reassuring a newbie. 😊

Thank you. That makes me feel better.

Hello! I have one Speckled Sussex hen that is 22 weeks old. She has just started laying. So far she laid a soft shelled egg two days ago and a hard shelled egg this morning. Both times, she laid her egg while standing on their sleeping roost and it fell down and broke. Have any of your hens ever...

Thanks. I was pretty sure it was male. I can’t have a rooster in city limits here, so I guess he’s going to live with my brother’s flock. He wanted a rooster anyway and this is the sweetest guy.

Hello! New to chicken keeping and new here. My first chickens are 15 weeks old now. No crowing or eggs yet. The feed store called this one an Americauna, but I’m pretty sure it’s an Easter Egger. And it’s looking like it’s probably a rooster. The hackle and saddle feathers are looking more...