I have a red star older hen who a while back started laying soft shell/thin shell/no shell eggs for a while and then went into s slight molt and quit laying for a short while. This morning she laid a no shell egg along with a hard cream colored mass about 2 inches. Looked like a petrified...
I have a red star older hen who a while back started laying soft shell/thin shell/no shell eggs for a while and then went into s slight molt and quit laying for a short while. This morning she laid a no shell egg along with a hard cream colored mass about 2 inches. Looked like a petrified...
A while back I posted pictures of what I bought as a Welsummer hen and not only was he not a hen but he is not a Welsummer. I am now wondering if I got confused. Could the attached pictures be my Welsummer hen? I thought she was one of the Americana
s I purchased but she has yellow legs.
My almost 3 month old Welsummer chick somehow looks more like a rooster to me. I have never had a Wellsummer. When she was a baby she had the V shaped markings on the head and the eyes and from what I have read this should have been a hen. What do those who have had Welsummers think?
I bought 9 chicks 4 1/2 weeks ago. I wanted to try a Wellsummer and so bought one. Well, the minute I put them all in their pen she started pulling feathers on the others. By 3 1/2 weeks old she was drawing blood on the other chicks. I put her in a cage by herself for this past week. The other...
I bought a few new chicks to replace some older hens. I bought 2 Reds, 5 Americanas, 1 black Austerlope and the chick from hell, a Wellsummer. from day one she has picked on all the others. They are now about 3 weeks old and she drew blood on one Americana and is pulling feathers on others. I...
I have been wanting a few chickens for years and finally built a coop ( 8X10) with a large 24 ft by 28 foot wired in pen and a smaller more secure pen on the other side of the coop. I hate to see them run totally loose as I also have a lot of hawks.
I purchased 12 babies this spring and they...
I bought my first chickens this spring and have 12. One of the barred rocks seems to be a bit under the weather. It is awfully hot this week here in Central Florida but the others are all lively. Her tail is down and her eyes are not as open as the others. I just noted that she is also panting...