I hope her shells get stronger! One of my hens last year (she was only 1 year old), laid thin shells all the time, though she had just as much calcium as the others. She had a habit of drinking too much water, and I think that was the cause. Maybe all that water flushed the calcium and...
Thank you @Bawkbok! We’re doing our best, and it is a trying process, though I’d take a long battle with bumblefoot over a lot of other chicken maladies.
The wrap isn’t too tight I don’t think, I keep them as loose as possible. I have a hen who pecks her roosting neighbors’ feet. I have a...
Can someone please advise me on what is happening with my hen’s foot? She has had bumblefoot on both feet for months now. We have been using tricide neo soaks, as well as an epsom salt poultice (durvet) and then we wrap in gauze and vet tape and change it daily. We have routinely removed the...
3 eggs yesterday, from Juillet, Marzo and Brelly.
Juillet hadn’t laid in a while, and her body always seems to forget how to add the brown to the eggshells when that happens. Her normally medium brown egg was a perfect match for Marzo’s egg color, a light beige.
3 eggs today, 1 from Helmi, and 2 from Août.
Août laid one egg overnight, and one egg early afternoon. She must have been stressed yesterday and held her egg back. You could see where the second egg had touched the other while forming.
My husband tried to mist the chickens to keep them cool...