My barred holland hen was laying steadily one egg everyday and was gaining weight great and was all healthy. Then about three weeks ago started losing weight drastically,n stopped laying cold turkey and developed a funky looking growth between two of her toes. The growth is a red color and has...
My barred holland hen was laying steadily one egg everyday and was gaining weight great and was all healthy. Then about three weeks ago started losing weight drastically,n stopped laying cold turkey and developed a funky looking growth between two of her toes. The growth is a red color and has...
One of my isa brown girls lays a jumbo egg about once a week. They are about the size of a duck egg and the carton wont close with them in it
These are great to collect but im afraid they are hard on my hen who only recently started laying. All of them lay exceptionally large eggs anyway so...
Two minutes ago i walked in on my 8 chickens huddles around an egg, taking turns drinking the egg white/yolk. I immediately seperated the chickens from the egg but this is definetly not a solution and i need one. I have been working on bulding a rollaway nest box to keep the eggs clean, etc but...
I have six Isa Brown hens who started laying two to three weeks ago. Four of them lay in the nest box, one on the floor randomly, and one while sitting on the roost. However they all lay standing up.
In the nest boxes they hunch over because there is no room to stand up so the eggs are fine...
I have a show in less than a week. My chickens have underbites much like the one below from being debeaked by a previous breeder.
They are 19 weeks old and they have trouble eating and drinking because of it. Will the judges at the show judge them down because of this? And if so, is there...
I have 8 chickens in my flock. The 7 hens are Hollands and ISA browns. My roo is an ISA brown. The fence around the enclosure was originally 5 feet tall but he kept getting out so I doubled the size. It is now 10 feet tall and the coop roof next to it is even taller. Sometimes I look out the...