Help! All of my hens have suddenly stopped laying eggs. I have 21 chickens(including 2 roosters). A few of my hens are old and don't lay anymore, BUT my Silver Laced Wyandotte hens(6 all together),BLRW and a few other mixed breeds don't lay eggs anymore and seem to have no interest in doing so...
Hi I have a white leg horn hen that ,in the last few days, isn't doing so well. She was laying eggs everyday until the last few days or week. She would go into a nest and just sit there, no egg. Now yesterday I noticed that she wasn't
eating,or drinking. She just stands beside the food and water...
Hi,I have a very sad story. I have a hen we call "Big Mama" she is an Astrolurp. Just a couple of weeks ago she hatched a baby. A beautiful little girl. Big Mama is an excellent mother. She trusts me and I could hold her baby without any problems. Her baby trusted me as well...sweet little...
Maybe a poor way to say it.. but I have a very young hen(pullet) who had just started laying eggs within the last few weeks. She has resently gone broody. No eggs under her though.She is a cross between a white Leghorn and a Silver Laced Wyandotte. She refuses to come off of the nest(don't even...
Hi I have a huge problem. I have laying hens..ok nothing new on this site lol...but the problem is. I started with 1 rooster and about 21 hens(some have died for various reasons,about 3,during the early spring). Then I decided to hatch 12 eggs to get more hens. That was back in April. I then got...
I haven't been on here for a while. Here is my problem. My chickens are free range, and most of them have stopped laying their eggs in the coop and now lay them thoughout the field and even across the road I think. I have searched for the nests and when I find a couple I have to destroy the eggs...
Ok here's the story..."Big Mama" had gone broody...she sat on eggs for 28 days. None hatched,all rotten. Then "Ms.Dottie" went broody and so I placed 6 eggs under her and while she was sitting, "Big Mama" went broody again(I placed 4 eggs under her). During sitting,Ms.Dottie got rid of any...
My older chicks are 10 weeks old this past Sunday. Yesterday I caught one of the young roos mating with an adult hen ! Today I caught 2 of the young roos trying to mate with their sisters and their sisters aren't even laying eggs yet! Aren't they a little young?
My older chicks are 10 weeks old this past Sunday. Yesterday I caught one of the young roos mating with an adult hen ! Today I caught 2 of the young roos trying to mate with their sisters and their sisters aren't even laying eggs yet! Aren't they a little young?
I have a broody hen( Silver Laced Wyandotte) sitting on 5 eggs....it is day 18 tomorrow. What I need advice for is...she is in a nesting box that is about 1 and a half to 2 feet above the wooden floor(covered in hay).Anyway, she is a really nasty hen,as in no one can get near her to move her...
My family and I went for a family outting today to a zoo....when we got back I noticed that my big dog(Golden Retriever mix) had something in his dog run...I had a bad feeling and it was right. One of my 9 week old(turned today) got in my dogs run and well....my dog killed her. I am so...
Is it possible for a hen to go broody about 2 months after she had come out of being broody...if you know what I mean. I think my Black Giant has gone broody again(she didn't get any chicks the last time and sat on the eggs for 27-28 days).
I have only 2 eggs in my bator. Day 20 for my Barred Rock and day 19 for my big giant. My Barred Rock egg pipped tonight. The father to these eggs is a Silver Laced wyandotte....should be interesting to see what the babies look like.
I have 2 eggs in my bator(day 18 for one and day 17 for the other). I turned them one more time this morning and then added more water and shut the bator. Tonight I was thinking about it and realized that one of the eggs was only on day 17 ! I had forgotten ! I cannot believe that I did...
Hi, my Silver Laced Wyandotte went broody June 25th...so I placed 10 eggs of various breeds under her(from my other hens). Anyway, she would get off the nest once a day and go outside to stretch her legs,eat and drink, and then back on the nest she'd go. Today, day 5, everything looked good...
Ok I have only 2 eggs in my bator that have developed and 4 others that haven't at all. Anyway, I have left undeveloping eggs in the bator(just checking every day to make sure they are going rotten). With the 2 developing chicks, they are developing fine. Although, when I candled I noticed that...
Hi, I didn't hatch these babies(unfortunately) but I just wanted to share with you how cute they are.....so here are some pics of my 5 goslings...about 1 month old.
Aren't they adorable? My chickens seem to like them too!
I'm am on my third hatch....day 10. I have a double yolker(doesn't look like it is fertile ),3 pure Silver Laced Wyandotte(don't look like anything is developing,not sure why as my SLW rooster and SLW hen are ALWAYS mating), a Barred Rock/SLW egg and an egg from my Black Giant/Wyandotte. The...
At what age is safe to add chicks to my flock of adults. My older chicks will be 6 weeks old this Sunday coming and have just a hint of fluff. When all of their fluff is gone, when can I add them to my flock? Do I have to wait until they are adults?