She started last week, just sitting on some eggs. I have 3 Red Sex Links (no rooster) and one nest box. So the others are either not laying or I find them under the roost, broken.
I have read article after article on what to do to break her. I have removed the eggs under her. I remove her...
She has missing feathers right under her neck. I see skin. Been going on for awhile now and can't figure out what is wrong with her. Otherwise healthy and still getting daily eggs.
Anybody know what is wrong with her?
I have 4 hens. On Monday we discovered 2 of them were bleeding on their back side. Having just become a chicken owner, I had no idea what this was. My wife saw one of the hens pecking at the two, so we assumed that's what is was. When we researched it and learned about prolapse, it made more...
I got 4 great girls back in April. First eggs started coming out in late June. By July I was getting 4 a day, every day. 3 times I got 5 eggs in a day. I am still getting 4 eggs a day. Hurricane Sandy rolled through, 4 eggs the next morning. Snowed all Christmas Eve - 4 eggs on Christmas. Snowed...
I have 4 girls and built them a 10 x 10 run. I thought that would be big enough but I am having second thoughts right now.
You see, about 2 weeks ago, I started letting the girls out right before dark for about 1/2 hour or so. They tend to stay pretty close to the run and seem to enjoy all the...
This is my story of how I built my first chicken coop.
I have a my own accounting business and have a client that has chickens. I would go there every month, do his work and he would give me a dozen eggs or so each time. After about 3 months of doing this, I fell in love with the eggs...
I just got 4 - 16 week year old chickens yesterday. Never done this before, but my daughter wanted to raise some chickens.
I have a run with a roof on it and a separate coop house. Yesterday, when I put the chickens in the run, they just all huddled up for most of the day. Later in the...