My Easter Egger is very very lethargic. She turns four in two months, and she hasn't laid since probably early fall, but she is older. She had similar but less mild symptoms a few weeks ago but seemed to recover on her own. Now she just lies down in the run, and she's getting worse. She can...
I just (as in a few hours ago) got a little three day old Wyandotte to join my little chick flock of a week old EE and a threeish week old Speckled Sussex. Not sure if the age difference advisable, I've never had chicks of different ages before but the SS is gentle with the little ones and they...
This lovely spring weather got the best of me, and I just picked up another chick. (She has two others for company, don't worry.) She's about three days old. What I'm wondering is, she and all the other chicks at the store (all with similar plumage) were labeled as blue laced reds, but when I...
I noticed a few minutes ago that my EE hen is acting a bit odd. She turns four in two months. She is moving almost in slow motion and not showing much interest in foraging or scratching even though I just let them out of the run. She perked up when I gave them some mealworms, but soon reverted...
I got two little chicks yesterday, a Speckled Sussex who I think is a bit older than two weeks and an Easter Egger who's probably about four days old. My plan was always to have five hens, but between surprise roosters and illness, I ended up losing four of my first six chicks (I got an extra...