I have a flock of 4 RIR hens. I started with 4 hens and 2 rooster, but I got rid of the roosters due to my hens being ravaged.
A year or more ago, one of my hens stopped laying. Before she stopped, she was laying on the grass and in weird places, and they were pretty thin shelled eggs...
I have four hens, all 1.5 year old RIR's. I used to have 2 roosters as well but I had to give them away due to their ravaging the hens non-stop! I have posted before about one of my hens that wasn't laying well...well, now she is not laying at all! She eats well, in fact she eats like a pig...
I have four hens. I used to have a rooster as well but I had to give him away due to his ravaging the hens non-stop! I have posted before about one of my hens that wasn't laying well...well, now she is not laying at all! She eats well, in fact she eats like a pig, and she seems energetic...
I have 4 hens and one rooster, all free range. The alpha hen, Henny, is a vicious and angry hen. The other hens all lay normal, beautiful eggs. Henny, however, for the past 3 month or so has been very peculiar. She used to lay such beautiful enormous eggs, the biggest of my flock, but then...
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I have four 5 1/2 month old Rhode Island Red hens who started laying eggs 3 weeks ago. They lay very nice large eggs, but I think the one that is lowest on the pecking order (her name is Penny) has been doing something rather extraordinary. The first eggs she laid were all...