Thankyou to everyone who replied. My husband and I are going to go over the coop very thoroughly. The attached run is very secure for anything larger than rodents and snake and such, but during the daytime it is open so the hens can free roam my backyard. That I knowingly take chances on. At...
That's what I'm thinking. My brother has had a same problem. His eggs disappear constantly and his chicks if he manages to get any disappear 3-4 at a time overnight until they are all gone. this is the first time it has happened to me.
My hen hatched only one chick about 5 days ago. Everything has been fine until this morning. the chick is gone. The mama is hanging around in the hen house looking for it. When I closed them up last night all was well. This same hen also had two of the fertilized eggs that I put under her...
I have four pictures of her. One is her poop, one is her head, one is how she is lying and one is what her neck feathers look like. Sorry I am not good at any of this.
My hen started limping on her right side a few weeks ago. I inspected her but could find no injuries. Then she started looking like she was molting, so I thought she was just molting a little later than the other hens. Now she cannot use her right wing or leg. She lays around on her left side...