Thanks for your questions
- They have steady access to Layena pellets, and they eat kitchen stuff - fruits, veges, grains etc.
- They have a 4x4 coop and a 10x4 run
- They have ground oyster shell
- I haven't wormed them - didn't know I could/needed too
Guess I pull her off the roost and...
Just wanted to get on board here and say hi.
I recently had a long held dream realized when a dear friend took it on himself to built me a coop in my urban backyard, and helped me bring five Ameraucana hens home to live in it. I am thrilled for myself, my kids, and our friends and neighbors...
I am a new chicken owner, and I think one of my Ameracauna's is not quite well. Her chest feathers are thinning (she's pulling them out?), her butt is losing feathers too and her poop spot seems to be sort of ....well, flexing...sorry.
This morning when I opened the coop I found a soft shelled...