I'm worried about my Cochin, she laid a gooey bloody mess today in the nest box. I've brought her inside, she's panting a lot which is not surprising as its almost 90F outside right now, I'm hoping once she's cooled down a bit it will be easier to see how she is doing.
One of my hens kept laying over winter but the others slowly stopped laying. This last week though one of the others has started laying again, 3 eggs so far but they have all been tiny eggs. It's strange because they all were laying perfectly normal sized eggs before.
Should I be worried if it...
My newest chicken Bravo appears to be showing some broody behavior. It's not too bad at the moment. She will spend the morning sitting on whatever eggs we have in the nesting box, but once I've come to collect them she will wander out a bit later and join the others. She's pretty well behaved...
She is from a friend of mine, who doesn't remember. She's smaller than my buff Orpington, and has a bit of black in her tail feathers but other wise looks pretty much the same to me. My Orpington lays large light brown eggs, whereas she lays smaller medium brown eggs of a darker color, but not...
One of my chickens was recently egg bound. I was quick to spot something was wrong as she kept squatting every few steps when I went out to see them and let them roam about the yard for a bit. While you could not see the egg you could see that she was trying to lay one, when I checked I could...
Hello everyone call me Aardyn. I currently have only 4 chickens, I had two more but I lost unexpectedly. I first got my chickens last summer as pullets from a friend who already had chickens and new I wanted some. Currently I have a Buff Orpington, a Black Cochin, an Egyptian Fayoumi, and a...