With last years mail order chicken i ended up with a rooster(oops). fast forward the first round of home hatched chicks was 4 months ago. Now that they are maturing i tell 3 out of 4 of them are roosters. So that puts my flock at 4 boys and 18 girls. Yesterday morning one of the young...
The comb of my chicken who was brooding for over 2 1/2 months is barely there. Her eggs hacked two weeks ago and momma and chicks seem to be in very good health besides the comb. Is it normal for the comb to deteriorate? Will it come back? How long should it take ? attached are pic of mom...
My older chickens are around 16 months old. One of them started spending the night in one of their hatching cubbies a few weeks ago instead of on the perch with everyone else. She now spends most of the day there as well. I do not have a roosters. why is she laying on unfereterlized eggs...
One of my 1 year old chickens looks sick. Her comb is very small and pail. She is eating and walking around but very slow with her tail down. Her eyes look watery and hasy. Any ideas what i should do. one pic is of her and the other are her same age sisters.