Recent content by JenniYoung

Well, thank you both. I have checked her three times pretty carefully, and I just cannot find it. I did find an area where there were broken and missing feathers, so I cleaned that part of her body very carefully. I think she's going to be okay; I hope so. She's my favorite chicken. :-)

Thank you, I will check again and separate her. Sumi, did your juvenile die after the attack or during? If I still can't find the wound, should I wash her whole self down?

To clarify, it isn't blood drips from her beak but water-looking drips.

A hawk just tried to get one of my chickens, and the neighbor boy scared it off. There were a few drops of bright red blood on the chickens wing and a very small pool of blood right where she was standing, but I have combed her over and cannot find the source. She is mostly standing in shock...

This egg is still a mystery! When we ate it, I couldn't help noticing (again) that it was different in shape and slightly different in color, and also the inside of the shell was a different color than our leghorn lays. I am pretty sure she didn't lay it. But we also haven't seen any more like...

14 weeks on Wednesday. And thanks. :-)

Well she hatched here two days after my son was born, so I am definitely sure of her age. :-) Thanks for the tip! I will have to try that. :-)

I have never seen another hen pull them out. I have seen her reach around there and pick at them, so I assumed it was her. That's why I upped the protein. She is definitely not bottom of pecking order.

I did, and they are different, so I assumed one of my newbs laid today. But then I thought that three months seems insanely early. And I have never had a white faced black spanish before...

And would she be getting progressively balder?

:-)

Is a neck molt a thing? No rooster.

Well, I know it isn't two eggs from two days. First, the leghorn had already laid yesterday. And second, I closed the laying house last night, and there were no new eggs in there this morning. These eggs were laid about four hours apart.

Any ideas how to help me help her? It started a couple of months ago, just prior to her being a year old. And the more time goes on, the more bare her neck. I have checked for mites and lice on her and other birds and see no signs. She is not being bullied. I have switched their food to...

Is it more likely that my 6 month old leghorn, who has been laying for a couple of months now, laid two in one day, or that my 3 month old white faced black spanish laid for the first time?