I have a 2 year old red sex-link hen that is showing some odd behavior. I noticed when we got her last fall her tail laid over to the side, even when she is standing straight. Shortly after I also noticed she would do a side-step to get to things. This has continued to worsen. She still is...
Yesterday morning, one of my hens flew down and hit the nesting boxes, she now has a break in her upper leg/lower leg. She cannot put much weight on it. She will use her wing to balance herself when she walks. I don't want to let her lay there and suffer. Do we go ahead and cull for the meat...
I have not had good egg production for weeks now. I have20 hens and get 1 to 3 eggs a day on most days. Sometimes the girls feel generous and give me 5, but that is rare. I keep seeing 3 or 4 hens, in particular, getting in the boxes but then when I go back in an hour or so they are...
About a month and a half ago I had a black giant get ill. Off balance on her feet, slowed feed and tons of water type diarrhea. I thought everything in the book since I am fairly new to chickens. They are all over a year old and I have 19 laying hens: 3 jersey and 16 black sex-link and 1 roo...
I am new to having chickens. Have only had them since May, started with four Black Jersey Giants and one leghorn roo and have added 19 black sex-links all from my husbands grandfather. They all seemed in perfect health but we had a tremendous heat wave come through Tennessee in late June and...