Hello All, so my RR Hen has finally laid an egg. However, the shell was very soft and funny looking. Like a tadpole. Does anyone know what happened or what’s going on with her? Here is a picture of the egg.
Oh...thank you all for your feedback. It is very helpful, but she is my husbands favorite and I don’t think we have the heart to make soup out of her. :( She is the more dominant one and crows all the time. She’s just looking for attention every time she see a man around, but w me she’s very quiet.
We haven’t noticed any breathering problems. She layed once this year. Just one egg and we were afraid to eat it. We opened it up and it was perfectly fine.
Ok, I’ll have to read more about that. I do give them some tuna, dry and live meal worms. What other proteins do you suggest?
She has also yet to actually molt...but the other two have.
Hello, I’m in NJ and it’s been quite warm over here. We got her from a local breeder who got them from a hatchery. She seems perfectly fine. However, she has killed two little sparrows. They were eating her food and I guess she got mad, but she seems perfectly fine. She try’s every day to lay an...
Help! My Rhode Island Red hen stop laying and she is only 2 years old. She doesn’t seem sick. She continues to go into the nesting box to “fake” lay, no eggs come out. The last time she layed was last year in August. What can be wrong? I read everything and nothing helps. My RRH seem perfectly...