I've been reading on here about the quantity of eggs that hens will lay, but what about the location? Today I got three eggs from my three hens. But all three eggs were in the same laying box. Is this normal? I've read that sometimes a chicken will lay more than one egg, but will they squat over...
I hope I'm beating this subject to death, but after searching, I couldn't find the answer I was looking for.
Are larger combs and wattles a sure sign of roos?
I have 7 red sex links (12 weeks old) which we bought as RIR's, and 2 red stars (13 weeks old.) Of the 9 birds, 6 have large combs...
I have 7 four week old RIR's and one of them is acting like a redneck. (I don't know what the proper term is for chickens.) So much so that the other birds are scared of him/her. It seems to have just started. He or she will approach the other ones and peck them on the back of the neck. It they...
Howdy! We are new to raising chickens and lost four of the first batch we bought to coccidiosis. (We think!) After reading about it online, that's the conclusion we came up with as they fit the symptoms we read about. So then we got seven Rhode Island Reds who seem to be the epitomy of health...