Recent content by JenJae

thank you for asking! all seem to be happy, healthy little chicks thriving and growing like weeds. and i'm happy to report joan jett is a great momma who takes her job very seriously!

Thank you all so much for your kind words and advice. Hearing each of your stories and wisdom makes it a little easier to accept. I thought I was doing a good job marking the incubating eggs and removing the new ones each day. I'll have to be more diligent in the future. I'm attaching a pic of...

We have a broody hen who is in the process of hatching 6 eggs total. Three of the chicks arrived late last week, and two hatched yesterday, one egg still in the wing. When I left for work yesterday the two newest chicks were just emerging. When I got home one was perfectly fine, the other had...

Thanks. I'll give them a good once over for lice tomorrow morning. I didn't think it could be related to molt since they're only 8-mos old but I'm just going off of info from the net. You guys have way more hands on experience than I. Thanks for all of the help!

I didn't consider this. I'll start paying closer attention. How would one go about stopping it, outside of separating our rooster? Put something unpalatable but non-toxic on her comb/tuft?

Thanks! I may be a nervous novice but something seems out of the ordinary. They're preening and shaking their feathers out quite a bit more than usual. I can't get the speckled chick with the missing crest feathers, Joan Jett, to hold still for a picture today. Areas of her cone are also...

Trying to identify if this is parasite related or fungus. These guys are all around 8months old. We've had some damp/wet weather over the last month or so. My polish? hybrid hen is starting to lose feathers on her crown, comb becoming exposed. It hasn't been a full crest from the get-go so...