my chicken is 1 year and 2 months old, she had just came out of broody buster on Saturday 20th May.
We noticed last Tuesday 23th (Day 1) that she poo was greenish and watery. In the meantime, she still ate but the crop was not as full as usual, and she lost feathers.
We visited a vet late on...
We could not figure out what's wrong with her and vet can't tell what's wrong with her. she is 1 year 1 month old, and had stopped laying for 2 months now.
we are in Sydney Australia.
From high summer (January) when the temp went up to over 40 degrees, she started to lay odd shaped eggs and...
one of our chicken laying habit changed a little bit under a month ago.
we first noticed her egg in the bedroom in the early morning, and found another egg during the day. it happened a few times, so we always checked the bedroom everyday to make sure we did not miss any egg she could've laid...
one of my chicken started to behave broody by plug her feather out, staying in the laying box all day, clucky, puff out her feather .... anyway she has been in the wire bottom cage for 3 days.
today very early in the morning we found an egg in the cage, so she laid. the egg cracked and we had...
we found an army of slug last few nights gathering after dark. some eats off the pellet &bits on the ground, and the rest crawl into the food feeder and eat the pellets.. it is so disgusting!.
Has anyone design a feeder that stop slug from getting in for feast ?
it's been more than a week since we switched from layer crumble to pellet, first we mixed the pellet in crumble at a ratio of 2:8. They kept scratching the pellet out of the feeder and left a mess in the ground.We buried the pellet with loose dirt, and hoped they will eventually start to eat it...
As first time chicken owner, it sound crazy that I went to a national poultry show to decide my "type" of chicken.
Completely overwhelmed. I took this photos at the poultry show and forgot the breed! I would love to introduce one along with a silkie or frizzle. Any guess?
It's a...
I love my 22 w old chicken who just laid yesterday. to my surprise, the egg was not chocaloate brown. and she does not look like a Barnie like one from Internet. is she a Barnie?[/IMG]