Recent content by mamahagen

Hello! I have 3-5 week old Ayam Cemani chicks. Adorable. Sing ALL the time. I’m hoping for at least one roo. One has a comb right to its head, one just a bit off the head and one about 1/8-1/4” off its head. Can’t really tell personality yet. The one with the bigger comb though does have some...

This was a rough winter and I had three of my birds separated from the big flock because my two roosters do not get along. My rooster Olli and two other hens stayed in a smaller coop and I'm afraid Olli got frostbit on his comb and possibly his toes as well. The places where his comb were...

Well I'm not telling my husband they live that long! I can't imagine culling any of them.

Thanks much. I guess we need to get more chicks each year if we want to keep this up. But, we don't want to overcrowd the coop, especially in the winter. How long would you say an average chicken lives?

Our two and three year old hens have stopped laying. We have 17 hens and two roosters and they started dwindling down in August down to 6 eggs per day and now we are lucky if we get one or two. The one or two have been for the last month or so. All spring and summer we were getting a dozen a...

Hello Everyone! I took one of my partridge plymouth rocks (Stina) out of the coop a few days ago because her butt was bloody stubs, no feathers on her rear end at all. I cleaned her up, put some golden salve and tea tree oil on her, and she was happy to be inside in a cage. She healed up, but...

Hello Everyone! I took one of my partridge plymouth rocks (Stina) out of the coop a few days ago because her butt was bloody stubs, no feathers on her rear end at all. I cleaned her up, put some golden salve and tea tree oil on her, and she was happy to be inside in a cage. She healed up, but...