When our white crested black polish got old enough to fly out of the enclosure almost every day, we had to clip her wings. She was getting into the garden but more importantly, when there were predators around we'd keep the chickens locked up and she'd fly right over. We didn't want her to be...
I have a hen setting on eggs. She has hatched 1 and we're waiting on the rest. Yesterday we picked her up off the eggs because my husband said he smelled something rotting, there was half an egg shell with liquid (consistency of water) and it was filled with maggots. Under that shell there...