I have a 2yr old Black Australorp hen with a very broken rear toe (chicken thumb). it is snapped in half and is just hanging on by the skin. She can stand but cannot walk or roost. Going to splint and wrap it once my wife gets home and see if we can get her moving again.
I have 6 Austarlop's that were hatched 3/21/15 - over the past few weeks I have been getting a bunch of different sizes and colored eggs from my young hens. It seems like when a hen starts laying - the first eggs are small dark brown ones and as they get older the eggs get larger and lighter in...