We have a flock of 9 hens and a rooster. One easter egger hen started losing feathers and just gotten worse. She is the only one of the 9. We thought it could be the roosters favorite but strange thing is we have never seen her get mounted but see the rest get it all the time?
The feather loss...
Hi everyone. We adopted some week-old and 2 day old Americana chicks yesterday and today was their first full day with us. One of the week-old chicks is having her newly-emerging tail feathers plucked out but the 3 day olds today and when I got home from work I found her tail area was a bloody...
4 different hens in these pics, we got them from someone about a month ago and didnt know enough to notice that the scales on their legs looked a little off.
3 of them have a few feathers on their legs, is it normal to have raised scales if they have feathering?
Hi, we recently aquired these 4 hens from someone local who breeds chickens and had gotten these from someone as babies. He said they were all silver laced Wyandottes. However, as you can see two have beards and two have a few leg feathers (one more than the other). We called him and he said...
Hi, we have 4 week old Easter Eggers: our first ever batch of chicks! We are newbies at this and were wondering if you guys can help us try to determine their genders. They did not come from a sexed group. Thanks in advance!
The first picture, above, is "Dale".
This is "Chip".
This is...