My splash marans laid her first egg Oct 17, a massive double yolker (ouch!). She didn't lay again for a few days (I thought) and I figured she was recuperating from the first monster. But then I found three soft shelled eggs on the floor of the coop. She's currently my only brown layer, so I...
On New Years day, I lost my beautiful girl, Hemlock. She was my third loss in a short time. A necropsy by the state vet showed lymphoid leukosis.
I've read everything I can find, and am no longer feeling quite so despairing. I had already ordered new chicks, with delivery in early May. The...
I found a red(maybe orangeish) poop when I went to scoop the coop this morning. It was the only one, the rest all looked normal. We finished treating for cocci a couple weeks ago after I found blood in a new chick's poop. It looked quite different from this, though. I treated the whole flock...
I have an oddly specific questions lol. I live in Alaska. It is still light out when I go to bed around 10pm and already light when I get up around 5:30am. Right now, there's a brief period of true darkness in the middle of the night, but in a few weeks that'll be gone and all we'll get is dim...