i, and sevetal friends, have Ameraucana hens. weve noticed after laying consistently for months they will totally stop laying for a few weeks then start laying again. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal for the Ameraucana breed??? We all feed high quality organic layer pellets and...
My year old Americuana is not laying. She was fully feathered but some feathers were still encapsulated at the start of fall. She’s not laying and wondering if this is typical of americuana’s....not laying in winter??? Any input, suggestions, experiences appreciated.
I was recently shown (by a chicken breeder) a method of plucking out the flight feathers rather than using scissors to trim them to prevent flight. I have posted questions about this method on byc n also searched the internet and cannot find anything. Can you provide me any added instructions or...
Well I loved my gray mutts but as one turned out to be a Roo (only have 2 cuz live inside city limits) I went searching for one more pullet and ended up with a matched pair of dark leghorns. These hens only top out around 3# which will work better for the size of my back yard coop and yard. They...
After discovering one of my 9 wk old pullets is really a Roo I need to replace her/him as I live in city limits and can't bother neighbors with crack of dawn crowing. I'm wondering about the 'quietest' chicken for my yard. The ones I have just do the slightest noise when walking in garden, can...
I have 2 9 week old, supposedly hen, chicks. One is developing more comb and wattle as well as being more red than the other. Is it set in stone that one is not a hen?? They are Cochin/Silkie/Mutt cross. Same roo for both but mom could be RI, or BR. They are pretty light gray color. I live...