HI All,
We have a 1.5 year old Crested Cream Legbar hen named Meriweather. She has been sneezing for about 2 weeks. We took her to the local vet about 8 days ago because she was open mouth breathing. He gave her a shot of steroids, ivermectin wormer and a course of Tylosin antibiotics for her...
Hi BYC friends.
We are a new crazy chicken family on Hatteras Island, NC. We currently have 12 hens that are all 1 year old. We are owned by 2 White Rocks, 2 Partridge Rocks, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 Golden Buffs, 3 Crested Cream Legbars and 1 Rhode Island Red hen. 11 lay eggs and one is a free...
Hi All. We have a 1 year old crested cream legbar hen named Flora. Flora started laying at 24 weeks and was laying beautiful large blue eggs. Suddenly, she started to be listless for a few days each week and we realized she was laying internally. Sometimes she would lay an egg but usually she...
HI All,
I have 12 laying hens and 3 nest boxes. Our birds are free range during the day with access to the nest boxes all day. We have one hen, a Crested Cream Leg Bar, who is almost daily on the other side of the fence. Today, my husband followed her as she snuck under the fence, crossed the...
We have been finding poop in the nest box after the eggs have been layed for the day. We count the girls every night on their perch and clean the coop every morning so we know that no one is sleeping in the nest box. Poop is somewhat watery. Has anyone heard of this?
We have a 24 week old Cream Legbar pullet that seems to be having an egg issue. She has been normal until this morning. When I opened the run to let the other birds out, she hung back in the coop. She went into a nest box around 7:30 am and is still there (it is now 12:30pm). She will let us...