Recent content by Newchickymama37

I think I might just bring her in in the morning and baby her inside the house where it’s warm!

Yeah I was going to say ameraucana too but I’d also like to know leg/foot color.

Nope, I couldn’t even feel her crop until I got her to eat something!

Lots of questions, i answered a couple already in other replies. Don’t know if I should still check her vent if she hasn’t started laying yet. She may be getting bullied and not getting enough to eat though. Don’t really have a way to isolate her except to bring her in. No bloody poop. Whole...

She hasn’t started laying yet and I haven’t seen any abnormal droppings.

None of the rest are acting like this. I don’t want to bring her in because then I’ll have to keep her in the whole winter because she won’t be able to handle being put back out in the cold after being in the heated house.

This is Elvira she is around 7 months old and has been fine until now. Yesterday she let me pick her up which is unusual and today I found her in the bottom of the back of the coop when I fed them. She was alone and didn’t run up for food as usual. I picked her up and got her to eat by putting a...

That’s exactly what I thought y’all! Well I’ll use them for breeding because the other three are pullets!

A couple months back I posted about my “dominques” and wether or not they were all pullets. This one in particular I thought was a cockerel and everyone said pullet. Here are some newer photos of he/she. Do y’all still think pullet? Because I don’t.

No one has foamy eyes and I can’t hear anyone rattling but that doesn’t mean they aren’t.

It was vacant land when we bought it. We cut down all the trees that have been downed. It was completely wooded. There are a few oak trees but not too many leaves make it into their enclosure because of the wire and mesh all around. I don’t think there have been any acorns in there. The csv you...

The laying hens I bought from an established farm that was getting out of chicken raising. The 3 chickens I have gotten from iffy sources were separated to begin with but where the others could see them.

They came from a large farm where they were looking to get out of chickens. They weren’t quarantined but I had already lost some of my young ones before I got them.

No, neither!

Sorry, yes they always have clean food and water with acv in it.