Until recently my hens had been laying 8-9 eggs a day. I have 12 hens, 4 of them are four years old, the other eight are 2 years old. This past week they dropped to 3 eggs, then 2, now I'm down to only 1 egg a day. I live in the south, so it is very hot right now, temps around 90-100, and very...
A few of my chickens have gotten pale combs. Their going through a molt right now, so I was wondering if that is the cause or if their is something else wrong. I recently put chickens from my smaller chicken pen, and put them in with the other chickens in the larger pen. Could they be sick? Or...
I have 12 hens and 2 roosters, 5 hens and 1 rooster are in one pen. Of those 6 chickens, ones a Dominique Rooster, two Dominique hens, and 3 RIR hens. They are 3 years old. The rest of the chickens (7 Dominique hens, and one Dominique Rooster) are in another pen. Those are only a year old. The...
I have lost 3 hens in the past 3 days, they kept falling down, then they died by the next morning. I was wondering if this could have been caused by them lacking some nutrients. Please any help will be appreciated.
I've been feeding fodder to my chickens for over a year now, I've mainly fed them that and nothing else. I've done some more research, and it looks like I can use it as a supplement, but not as the sole source of feed. Is that right, do I need to pick up some more layer feed, and feed them...
This morning I found one of my hens lying dead in the chicken run, and I found another hen down in the roosting room, she's a little better now, up moving a little. I checked the dead hen, and the other one, but there are no apparent injuries, no sign of mites, or worms, and they were fine...
I found one of my hens dead in the roosting room this morning. Her neck feathers were sticking up, showing her skin, she had a piece of barley fodder half eaten, sticking partway out of her mouth. And her skin looked scaly, any ideas what happened to her. Was it scaly mites? or something else...
I found one of hens dead this morning, she was laying in the roosting room, on her side. There wasn't any blood, here are a few things I noticed, her neck feathers were standing up, her skin almost looked scaly, and she had a piece of barley fodder in her mouth half eaten, part of it was...
Whenever I fed my chickens a few ago I noticed one hen kept losing her balance, her legs would give way a little, and she was using her wing to support herself. Now that they've settled down she's walking good, any ideas on what's wrong. My chickens appear healthy they have red combs, their not...
I was on the outside of my chicken pen, when one of my hens ran down the run, and attacked another hen, she knocked her to the ground, and pecked her head several times, bringing blood. My rooster tried to protect the hurt hen, but the attacker kept attacking and knocked the rooster out of the...
I need help, I was on the outside of my chicken pen when one of my hens ran down the run, and knocked another hen to the ground, she then pecked her head over and over. She brought blood. The injured hen is still alive, I have her separated, and I gave her some egg, oats, and honey to give her a...
One of my hens was walking around at feeding time, and then she just collapsed. She tried to move but she couldn't, I helped her up and she started walking again. She's a little wobbly though, she bends one wing down to support herself. Then after that she started walking like normal. Any ideas...
I have some baby chickens in a brooder, their too young to walk on wire. I had them on newspaper covered with shredded paper, but one of the babies has hurt it's leg, can I use pine straw, or do I need something like hay? I also have access to crushed sandstone if I can use that. Any help will...
What can I do to get my chickens to start back laying eggs? Should I give them extra protein, calcium, vegetables? Please any help will be appreciated.
Ok yesterday I gave my chickens a good source of calcium and they gobbled it up. I gave them a good bit of the stuff. They haven't laid any eggs in 4 months, due to mites, and losing 3 members of the flock. Some of the hens now have red combs, but the dominant hen still just has a pinkish comb...
I know you're probably getting tired of me asking, but I really need to know. My 10 hens (2 years old) haven't laid eggs in 4 months. They suffered from mites, and we lost 3 chickens. So now, a few of the hens are getting red combs, some have pinkish combs, but my dominant hen has the palest of...