I just got my rooster back from some neighbors who took it illegally to try to breed it for cockfighting. This rooster has already had a pretty hard life, he has had a heart attack that has probably left him with slight brain damage and has gotten his whole back plucked by a few of the other...
I have a few hens that won't lay. they are over a year old and all the other hens in the coop are laying fine. one of these hens had pneumonia when I first got her, but she pulled through strong and seems unharmed. they are technically wild hens, but they were raised in a pen since they were...
I have 10 Red Star, or red sex-link, hens in my backyard and I was hoping to get them to lay and hatch, but these hens aren't a broody breed. does anyone know a way to get them to lay and hatch their own eggs without them being broody, or a way to induce broodiness upon them?