Earlier this week my son showed me our 6 month old Barred Rock had a discolored comb. It looked purple like a bruise. It's normally bright red. Later on in the week it looked normal. Today I found her just standing with the other hens with her feathers puffed up, head down and eyes closed. Her...
We live in town and need to rehome two roosters.... We have a 1 1/2 year old white rock, his name is Bubba and 4 month old Easter Egger named Cinnamon. Hate to see them go but I don't want our neighbors complaining and have to lose them all. We live in NW ohio.
Today my son came running into the house yelling "babies there's babies!!!!"
Our Dutch rabbit we thought was a buck is infact a doe and delivered four lil babies this afternoon! I immediately called our local rabbit expert and asked what we needed to do. We got them moved into a nesting box and...
I found one of our 1 year old white rock hens dead in the nesting box today. My son had seen her with the other hens earlier, and he said yesterday she was pale not eating or drinking and laying around a lot. Even wanting to sit on his lap. I found her in the yard last night after the others had...
This lil one was hatched March 25. My son plans on showing her at the fair. We are pretty sure it is a her. Does anyone have any info on Columbia Rock Bantams? I haven't found too much.
I joined a few months back but I've finally started posting. I'm NW Ohio. We have 6 one year old white rock chickens and 10 pullets hatched in March. We also raise rabbits and would like to get two goats someday. We have four children, two in 4-H and they show their animals. We just started...
My husband started a new coop for our girls this weekend. It's 8'x4' and will be made of mostly repurposed wood. This is what we have so far. The base will be for dust bathing and we have the floor in.
We have five white rock hens in April one of our hens started losing feathers on her head. Then she started losing them on her back/wings we blamed this on the rooster and separated him from the girls. But now her head is completely bald. A couple of the other girls feathers are a little ragged...