They both look something like this. I know it's silly but I'm worried they're freezing. My four other sex links are fat and feathery and these two ladies look a bit sad
Both of my New Hampshire Red hens are loosing feathers around their necks and rapidly. I havent been able to pin point if the other hens are pecking them or they are falling out on their own. There are long white stem like pieces that look like they were the root of the feathers that are no...
One of our hens has laid a HUGE double yoke egg and it seemed to me it took her a few days to get it out. She was in and out of the nesting box for at least two days. She has also recently become extremely broody, even attacked another hen and pecked her comb half off. Im concerned she is not...
I would like to stay as far away from lamps as we can. Im afraid of the fire hazard, especially because we live on a little tiny homestead the size of a post-it note. We already have a 5 gallon watering system the girls seem to really so we bought the heater for the same product. As for the...
This is our first winter raising hens and are looking for a little guidance. We have four sex-link hens and two rhode island reds. Our coop has an small enclosed run attached to the hen house itself and is inside a 12x15x7 pen. It sits pretty much smack dab between our house, the back house...