i jistbam so upset!!! I have about 60 chickens. I clean their poop boards once a week or week and half. Their nest boxes are always clean. I found two 2-4 inch worms in two dropping of poop on the poop board. I am so upset right now. I've researched worms in chickens and it seems like a never...
I currently have 20 hens 4 of which are bantams the rest are RIR BR and a few other that are comparable in size. I picked up 20 more chicks. I currently have two roots and under the roost is a platform that catch the poop. I keep it very clean. I have 4 nest boxes that are attached but built...
I have 4 hens. I went to open the coop door this morning and discovered an egg that looked like a human had cracked it in half. It looks like some of the inside was eaten. I can't tell since the hay is in the way. But as I have read on other threads if a hen ate the egg it would have looked as...
When I went to let out my chickens which are just five months old today (and just started laying small eggs within the week) I found on the coop floor two eggs. However these egg appeared to have no shell!! One was whole and the other looked like maybe the other was stepped on or pecked at...
My chxiekns just started laying. Thy are five months old. Their eggs are very small. I've read this can be normal. However I've cracked a few of them and they are very very tuff to crack and the shell ends pushing up into the yolk even before it hits the bowl. Is this a common thing?? Am I...
My chickens are only 4 months old and have always been fed scraps and crumbles. However we have been going through alot if crumbles. The chickens send more crumbles over the edge of their feeder than they get in their mouth. I heard pellets were less of a waste. But now they have only pecked at...
My husband built an amazing small coop(3 feet wide 5 feet long 4 feet high ). Inside he built about a 2 foot nesting spot off the ground for the chickens to lay their eggs when they mature more. They are 2.5 months and we have 4. I'm doing the deep litter method so their coup has poop in it but...