She keeps trying in her usual spot, making her "laying noise", but no egg. She normally will lay everyday. I'm not sure what to do at this point. She is eating normally. We have not seen her poop. Not saying she hasn't - just haven't seen her do it. She is 21 weeks old. Weighs about 3lbs...
It looks a lot like my hen's eye only my hen didn't have the misshapen eyelid. She got an infection from getting dirt in there or an accidental peck. My group generally don't peck at each other often...but the eye looked identical to that and we took her to the vet to have it removed after...
In our setup, the coop is in the center and the run is a large square around it. We picked a muscadine off our vines that was ripe and tossed it into the run. Golda, our most egg laying and vocal of the bunch, snatched it up and took off running around the coop where we couldn't see, with the...
I'm new to chickens and I have some 19/20 week old girls (I actually have sort of lost track) that one of them is laying everyday almost, but not the rest!! I don't know if this is normal, or what if anything, I should be doing. I put out some nesting boxes and lined them with artificial turf...
Ok, so Ms. Pickles still! has an eye infection and the vet says she might have to surgically remove it. 😞 She is permanently blind now in that eye. We have faithfully given her all of her doses of medication even though she squawks and kicks. The other chickens peck us when we are giving...