Need advice from anyone,
I went out to check for eggs and notice there was some blood on the watering can and was looking at all the hens ( I have 5 ) and my hen Cluckie was bleeding a little on her comb and then I notice that there were feathers missing around her neck. I put some vaseline on...
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I have a few questions for anyone out there...Do the hens stay down in the run during the winter months or will they go up in the coop when they feel cold? Our coop has the run underneath and the coop area with the roost and where they lay is about 4 ft off the ground. Is that...
Does anyone know how long it will take for shells to get hard if they suddenly got soft. Today, I notice when I went out to check for eggs, that there was an egg and it was soft. I thought that the layers feed had oyster shell in it. I went out and bought 50 lbs today and gave them in a...
How soon after feeding them oyster shells will their eggs have a harder shell? Also, I thought that the feed had enough oyster shell in it to make their eggs have a hard shell, it that a misconception? Appreciate any thoughts on these questions
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My hens are turning 23 weeks and I was wondering do the hens get more regular the next year of laying? My buff starting laying at 20 weeks and then the Plymouth Rock then my Barred Rock and I'm not sure if my RIR is laying yet. They were all born at the same time so their all...
On the first of September my plymouth rock was making a bunch of noise and she went up to the nesting box and pretty much made a mess in the nest and returning back and forth and squawking and didn't lay an egg. So, yesterday apparently she running around and just layed the egg in the run and...
My BO layed her first egg this afternoon. We decided to keep the first egg, so we blew out the egg and we're going to put it in a plexy glass casing to show it off.
Today our beautiful hen Clucky layed her first egg and it was the cutest thing I ever witnessed. She did her little song and squawk and went up to the nest, came back down made some more noise than went back and panted a little. I was wondering how she was so I peeked inside and she was on the...
Can anyone help? My BO just turned 18 weeks and this morning I heard one of the hens make a huge squawking noise after going bawk...bawk...then a large squawk after and this evening I went to pick her up and the other hens didn't want me to. then my son picked her up and there was a white...
I was wondering if anyone knew how to share pics in your blog. When I clicked on insert it said, I didn't have permissions to create attachments. Just wondering why?
Question for anyone out there. I was told my hens could be laying soon and they are still eating growers feed because I was told to feed them that until 20 weeks. My question is, "Will their eggs be soft beings they are still eating this feed?"
Another question for anyone out there. " If my hens are going to start laying soon,shouldn't I start feeding them layer feed?" Because right now they are eating the growers feed.
This my first time raising chicks to beautiful hens and I was wondering when is the earliest that the hens will start laying eggs? Also, if they are in the run will they go up in the roost to lay or will they lay before coming down in the morning?
My hens are 16 weeks old at about what age is the earliest that they will start laying eggs and do they lay their eggs before coming down to the run or do they go up to the roost to lay if they have already been up and been in the run. I am a first-timer
Well, its been awhile since I've written and a lot has improved since I was on. I lost my password so the site makes you restart. So, anyway my chicken coop is finished and we put our chicks out on Mother's Day of this year and they love it. It only took 2 days for them to figure out that...