So i recently was looking at my chickens' feet and I noticed that one of them has bumblefoot. In both her feet. My parents and I just tried today to take out the plug and the underlying pus, but my chicken started freaking out, so we got the scab off of one of her feet, and wrapped it, and gave...
Never mind! She just laid her first egg. It's a really light tan color. The thing is she's suppose to be an Easter egger..... Hmmmm might have to post in the what breed or gender section.:D
Thanks! Are you sure she's egg bound? This is her first egg and I don't know if the first just takes a long time or anything. I don't time my other chickens
I am the owner of five chickens, and four of them Have started laying. Today I was going outside to get the eggs and found the one chicken not laying in the nest sitting on all of the eggs. I kept going out over time to see if she'd moved and found she hadn't. I moved her off the nest and got...
This morning my dad went outside to get the eggs and found a chicken with a egg shell in her mouth. Only two of the six chickens have started laying and I have recently started to feed them finely crushed egg shell for calcium. How do I stop them from eating their own eggs?
Today our pullet Phoebe laid an egg! We got back from our vacation to Hershey and I went outside to check and I found our first egg EVER! On top of that it was a perfect, fertilized, double yolker!
So we have to get rid of our rooster but we don't know how to transport him without him freaking out. What type of crate should we put hm in? The drive will be about 4 hours.