I moved them into a newly built coop two weeks ago. For the first week I placed their nesting box in the new coop, they were fine with it and all eggs ended up in that box. Last week though, they dug through all the bedding in the nesting box and laid their eggs on the ground, then proceeded to...
My brown leghorn stopped laying recently, I had no idea why. Today I looked at him and he seemed to have a massive breast growth. So I felt it and it seemed to feel like play-doh or clay. When I took my hand off the hand-sized lump, MY FINGER IMPRINTS WERE MOLDED INTO IT. It was a giant lump of...
Today my chickens let out their poop in one giant chunk, it was massive. I thought something was up so I took it out with some sticks and broke it open. There were some yellow inch-worm looking worms inside (it was dead though), is this something I should be very concerned with? What do I do to...
It was in the woods today foraging and I found out afterward that it's talon got ripped off, so far theres a smaller talon under it but its still small and bleeding, what do I do? Does this happen often? Are they supposed to regrow talons?