I just lost my third Hen to "Disease" and could use some help with Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention.
We lost the first around Thanksgiving, the second was 3 weeks ago, and the latest died last night.
All three hens, the first two were White Laced Red Cornish and the latest was an...
Hi everyone, I've been stressing for months because my 8 hens had not layed any eggs. One Easter Egger did lay for 3 weeks or so back in August, but then quit (I'm guessing due to the heat). I looked into everything-Food, Predators, Parasites, Molt, Etc and was satisfied that I was doing...
In addition to raising chickens, we also make our own Beer. As such we often have large quantities of Malted Barley that could potentially be fed to the chickens as scratch. Just curious if anyone has done this and if there are any problems with it? I did give some to them yesterday and they...
Just finished our new Coop-Home to our four 7-8 week old White Laced Red Cornish and three 14-15 week old Easter Eggers and thought I'd share some pics. Thanks to everyone on here for ideas and inspiration!
Enjoy!
I didn't want to hijack the other thread, but aside from the standard practices with integrating new birds to a flock are there any special considerations when adding three older pullets/hens (14 weeks) to a flock of five 7-8 week old birds? Would it perhaps be easier? Thinking that the...
Was letting the girls (Five 6 week old WLRC ) free range a bit last night while I was working in the yard-They had gotten out of my sight, but I could still hear them when all of the sudden they started making a LOT more noise and I could tell they were in distress. I peeked out from behind...
We have five lovely 4 1/2 to 5+ week old chicks. We were led to believe that they are Cornish Cross, but they don't look like any pictures I've seen of Cornish Cross at a similar age. They do have some whitish feathering, but it has a noticeable buff/brown coloring mixed in (Not dirt-I Checked...
Hi everyone! Enjoying reading the posts so far; lots of great info on here. We picked up 5 pullets last week from the local Feed Store with the intention of having egg laying hens and only found out afterward that they are Cornish Cross chicks. We've fully researched the "Breed" and intend to...