My mom and I went out just a short while ago to check on our chickens and we found our buff Orpington rooster dead under the hen house. He was on his stomach and his face was black. I didn't get to take a pic because my grandpa buried him pretty quickly. What could cause this? He was the picture...
Our hen was sitting on 4 eggs. This morning we found one dead, possibly due yo hatching difficulties and one very healthy chick. Just went back out and the hen was out of the box with the chick dying on the ground from a leg wound probably from.one of other chickens. I checked the box and found...
So my Brahma who is about 8 months old laid her first egg the other day and it was soft shelled. It had splattered outside the nest box so we cleaned it up and I wasn't too worried because I had read here that funky first eggs can happen. But this morning right after we fed them she started...
I need help identifying my rooster, we got him from a friend and I don't think she knows exactly what breed he is either. She said her hens had started laying some green eggs so I thought well if she got them together, then perhaps he's an EE. But I've checked online and he doesn't look anything...
Hey there! I'm pretty stoked to be a member of these forums now with all you fine folks! After several years of wanting to I've finally started a flock of my own. About a week ago a friend asked my mom and I to take in a cockeral before he started crowing, she lives in town and wouldn't be able...