One of my hens is either injured or sick. I don’t see anything that indicates she’s been hurt, but she’s breathing heavy & fast & stays almost limp if you touch her. She is normally the only skiddish bird out of my six. I walked right up to her pet her & picked her up without the slightest...
One of my sapphire gems has given us a couple monster double yolkers two days in a row now! My wife & I thought they was already laying some pretty big eggs, Man we was wrong. The first barely fit in a jumbo egg carton. Today’s unfortunately cracked when it hit the nest box floor though. Pretty...
I live in central IN & if anyone is familiar with our weather it’s pretty unpredictable. Our temporary coop is about to get retired in place of a larger more well built coop.
I’m wrestling with the idea if I should bother insulting the coop? Their current coop is insulated all around with 2”...
I cannot seem to find a simple link anywhere to start new posts. Actually I clicked several links to finally find this & now am not completely sure how I got here. Is there something obvious I’m missing. The only post I have made was through an original email when I first joined & I no longer...
I have one Easter egger in my group of 6 chickens who is very different from the group. She is the smallest of the bunch. At one point we didn’t think she’d make it. She was tiny as a chick & ended up getting pasty butt which we remedied with olive oil for a few days before it cleared up & she...
Hello, new to the forum & fairly new to raising chickens. We have 6 fairly young birds (6months) Two sapphire gyms, two Americanus & two Easter Eggers. Our two sapphires are laying pretty consistently & aside from an occasional few calcium deposits otherwise laying nice large eggs. We have...