My 3 Welsummers were born in Late may 08, and started laying nice dark brown eggs in November. I have welsummer and Americauna roosters, and hoped to incubate some welsummer eggs this spring. But as of last week, I have seen no more welsummer eggs. The trio seem to be favored by the roos...
My 26 month old Rhode Island red was dead yesterday. She had shown symptoms of lethargy for the past two days. Last week, the other bird her age, a Leghorn , showed the same odd symptoms. Tired , not real interested in eating scratch with the other chickens,. I was keeping a close eye on her...