i dont pin my chickens up at night, they have a run attacted to the coop. They wont use their roosting pole. They want to sleep in the doorway into the coop. And then in the morning their bottoms are a mess from poo. I thought maybe their roosting pole wasnt high enough so i had my husband...
I put the hen that was attacked in a dog crate in the run area this morning so they could still be around one another but they couldnt peck at her. I was able to find farnam blue lotion (i was told it was the same as the blu-kote) so i am going this afternoon to pick that up and give it a try...
Yesterday I caught one of my girls going after one of the others. She would pin her down and was pecking at her neck and comb. She had plucked a few of the small feathers from her neck and put a few pecks on her comb before i was able to get to them. I have no seperated the hurt one from the...
I came home yesterday to find my first egg! I didn't no which girl it came from though but this morning I caught her in action.
First Egg I Found!
The white one on the left is a jumbo store baught egg, the little brown one on the right is from my girl!
Caught her in Action!
Her...
When I let my girls out yesterday morning I noticed one of them had a swollen wattle that looked to have some dried blood on it. Will this heal on its own or is there something I need to do?
My girls are 18 weeks and no eggs yet! Also in the last 2-3 weeks i've noticed that 2 of them has gotten bigger brighter red combs and wattles. The other 2 are starting to now. Is this normal for hens?
At how many weeks do i need to place an object in the nesting box for them to no where to lay eggs? And will they see this ball or fake egg and just auto. no where to start laying them?