My Daisy is one week shy of a year old and has been going through an extended molt, during which she has been eating less and lost some weight. She is the top of the pecking order and definitely the alpha Chick, always fighting for food and bossing everyone around. But, lately she has been...
Three of our five chickens have recently gotten some small spots on their combs and wattles. After researching online, it seems to be fowl pox (and two of them are already healing up). But sweet Gertie seems to be getting more and more and they are far worse than the other two. She also has some...
Thank you! No rooster, and she hasn't laid an egg yet (though we did get a very small one yesterday that we were wondering if it might be her first...but we have another hen who is still laying small eggs, so we are not sure).
My first guess was being pecked in the eyes by the alpha hen, since...
My 20 week old Black Australorp, Violet, is the sweetest girl ever! She has been missing some neck feathers rece which figured was molting or due to the Texas heat, but this morning, when we found her sitting on the porch with her eyes closed, then walking and running in to things. She can open...
Meet Violet! She is 7 weeks old today is the sweetest thing ever!
Santa brought us 4 Swedish Flower Hens for Christmas, but two of them ended up being roos and one of the pullets got killed by a hawk. We decided to get a Black Australorp to detract from hawks and give our one remaining girl a...