All my chickens are in the enclosed fence space during the day and at night locked in coop in smaller closed coop run. I have camera and can see they stay in the fenced part and the dog kennel. So she is not laying outside that area. I guess I’m more concerned with her coop activity all day...
I have a cream legbar that I’ve had about 9 months ( she’s about a year old now). She first laid about last October or so and I got mostly beautiful blue doubles from her for weeks. She settled down and I was getting 4-5 eggs a week that were just normal eggs. For last 2 months she hasn’t laid...
I also wondered about #1 but I would think that I’d see some kind of saddle feathers growing in by now. I haven’t had an Easter egger so wasn’t sure. Does it matter if my roo l( whose 2yrs old ) loves this one like the adult hens ? When I put them all together for a little bit he would show this...
I wasn’t sure if mom would be confused about the move and abandon them. They are too little to free range yet but they do come down to the small run off and on during the day. Our 6’ fence around the yard has area between slats or underneath that a baby chick could get out of
I have a year old sebright that hatched fertile eggs 8 days ago. She and the 5 babies are doing great. I built a new coop and need to move her, the babies and my other two hens to the new coop. They are all in together at night and the other two hens free range during day, coming back to get...
Oh. Whew. I hope that’s normal. I haven’t heard about those black bands looking greenish on speckled Sussex. It’s only in sun that they look like that. Her new feathers coming in are all very rounded.
My 13 week old speckled Sussex pullet has white tips on her feathers like she’s supposed to but where the black banding right above it there is a greenish color band instead of black on some of her feathers. Is this normal? She is supposed to be a pure speckles Sussex ...