Has anyone here had experience with putting a sweater on your chicken to keep them warm from molting or to cover up feather loss from an aggressive hen while the feathers grow back in? I am considering doing this as the more aggressive chickens see the bare skin and peck at the ones trying to...
Hi, everyone. I have 6 Black Australorp hens that are all laying well. However, one of them is pulling out her breast feathers on a regular basis. Sometimes the other girls will pick at the bald area but not always. We have been applying the Blu-Kote stuff and she seems to leave it alone for...
You will be glad to know the hens started laying on October 7th, exactly 3 months after I received them! And they are now laying between 5 and 6 eggs a day. You were right!
Hello, everyone!
I received my 6 Black Australorp juvenile pullets on July 7, 2016 from a national reliable hatchery. I estimate they were 15 weeks at the time. The chickens would have been 24 weeks in the first week of September. I am now into the first week of October and no eggs. The...