I adopted six Cornish mix meat hens. I am not intending to eat them. Just letting them live their life and they are laying eggs for me. The problem I'm havnig with them is they won't go up the ramp to the coop at night. We've adjusted the ramp to be longer, less incline and even has a...
I have a 4 year-ish old Cuckoo Maren who has a ping pong sized tumor hanging off her mid section. It's very hard. It's dangling and not hanging on by much skin. Any thoughts on what I should do besides the vet? (I realize I may end up there but just brought another chicken in recently for...
So I have found these very small, round, black/brown bugs on the eggs in our coop. Not on every egg and I can't find anything on the chickens themselves. I've cleaned out two of the next boxes and laid new hay. Just did the third next box today. I have two hens that have been sitting on eggs...
So we have five female chickens that were a year old this past April. No roosters. We went on vacation last week and our neighbors took care of the chickens (and have had chickens in the past.) They reported no problems. I didn't notice anything wrong with the girls when we came home on...