Our first egg, laid on 6/7/13- our 5 year wedding anniversary lol. What a gift. No more since then, but that was sweet of her. Laid by one of our ex battery hens finally done with her molting. Hoping to have the other ex battery leghorn laying by the end of this month. My young white leghorns...
Does anyone have experience with Chlamydiosis???? I am beginning to think we have that here! NOT ONLY were the chickens sick, but my husband and kids too. My daughter ran a 104 degree fever 3 days ago, the highest she has Ever had, she is 4. They are all coughing, and have icky chest congestion...
Ok, so we are newish to chickens. Done lots of research on this and cant figure out what this is. My chickens are sneezing, some have gunky noses. Thats how it begins. Some are fine, if they get lethargic, they die. I thought infectious bronchitis. Treated with Duramycin. For approx 2 weeks...
Well, Sadly since I was last on here, We seem to have a case of Infectious Bronchitis running through our Chickens. We lost 2 of the 5 ExBattery Hens(white leghorn), 2 Buff chicks, 2 Barred Rock chicks. And 1 RIR chick, but I think it died from the antibiotics! Within an hour of adding the...
Hi! Actually I found the exBattery hens on Craigslist. They seem to be adjusting well. They have learned how to scratch from the chicks, and they will eat bugs/worms from your hand. They seem very happy to snuggle together in the hay at night. They do not know how to roost at all, but they are...
Hi! I am new to BYC and to chickens in general~ We jumped Right in though, now we have 22! We have 5 ex battery hens who are still in moult, so no eggs yet. All of our others are still chicks really. We do not have any that are over 6 weeks old. But we have the 5 White Leghorn hens, and 4 white...
I was wondering the same thing! I bought 4 Buff Orpingtons and 2 of them have the dark feathers coming in at the rear and on their necks! I was thinking perhaps they are a Buff mix? I bought them with Barred Rocks, and perhaps they are a cross of that. I really want to know because it will help...