I have a RIR, two marans, and three Cream Legbars. This is their first laying season and about a month after they started laying, one (or some) of them started pecking the eggs incessantly. Sometimes we would get 4-5 eggs a day but 3 or more would be pecked and broken. I tried golf balls...
My own dogs got ahold of one of my hens today (blue splash marans -- my rarest!) and injured her badly. A huge patch of feathers is missing on her back and her skin is all bloody and raw. Is there anything I can do to treat the area? Will it heal and will the feathers come back? She doesn't...
We left our chickens for 36 hours and came home to one lying on her side in a puddle of dried diarrhea in the nesting box, barely moving. The diarrhea was crusted around her vent like "pasting up" is described but she is 10 weeks old, hardly a baby chick. There was a bit of a heat wave this...