I was watching a TV show about sustainable food and the guest said, “If everyone would have chickens in their backyard instead of dogs. . .” and it got me thinking. Then, without prompting, a cute little coop popped up on my computer screen while searching for something else and the rest is...
Thank you! She seems healthy. Last year her sister Penny molted big time. I was looking for the dead body under all of the feathers. Peep just dropped a few feathers. She's dropped a few this year. Could this just be her style of molting?
My two and a half year old Rhode Island Red caught a case of poultry pox this summer, self diagnosed due to a black spot on her comb. She was stressed and stopped laying. That was a few months ago. She seems to have recovered, but is not laying. Will she ever resume laying? Or is she done?