Hi everybody. So we have a hen who is lost a bunch of fathers due to our old rooster. He was dispatched about 3 months ago, and she has not been able to grow her feathers back. We also have noticed that she has not been laying for several months as well. She was the old roosters favorite, and as...
Yesterday one of our pullets got out of their run and into the "adult" run. She got attacked by some of the older hens. We found her trying to get back into her run. We brought her inside and my wife put some water with coloidal silver on her wounds. And then gave her some water. Is there...
This is our first time hatching eggs. We did six, and so far only one has hatched. Today is the end of day 22. We believe we had movement from a couple of the other eggs, but so far no pips. And we aren't sure if the "peeping" is coming from the eggs or "Sheldon". It took "Sheldon" almost 36...
Our flock of 11 hens have been all laying now for a couple months. We have 8 Barred Rocks, 2 brown eggers and 1 olive egger. Today this blue egg was found on the coop floor. Is it possible that our "olive egger" is actually a "blue egger"? 🤔
Above is the blue egg. Below is the blue egg next to...
Hi everybody! We need some help with figuring out if 14 week old is a hen or a rooster. When we got this batch14 weeks ago, we thought that "little fella" was the only rooster. We were wrong. There are three that have turned out to be roosters. However, "Little Fella" doesn't seem to have the...