Hello - I have 7 hens, 4 New Hampshire Reds and 3 Brahmas. They're great birds. Earlier this summer they started losing feathers near their vents. At first I thought they were "moulting" or something like that, but as the feather loss spread (and they didn't grow back) I started to suspect...
Hi - I have 7 hens (no roosters), all about 1.5 yrs old, very good egg producers, generally very healthy (except some mites which I just treated today with DE). Recently though - the last couple of weeks - one of them (not sure who) starts crowing VERY LOUDLY right after sunrise (about 6AM in...
Hello all - we have a small flock (7 hens) who are about a year old. These are our first chickens ever. Fortunately we've had a really good year with all seven chicks growing into healthy layers....until....
Just the other day one of our hens wouldn't come out of a nesting box all day...