I am seeking advise for my poor EE, Lady, who appears to be the victim of a bit of bullying. She's missing feathers from her lower back/base of her tail. And now she hasn't even laid an egg for over a week. (she used to lay 5 times a week) I have whitnessed over and over again Cleo, one of our...
Our EE, Lady, just laid her first egg today. It was the palest blue. It almost looks white unless its next to something white for comparison. Will her egg color get any more blue or is this first egg an indicator of how all her eggs will be? Our BSL's first 7 eggs have all been identical...
One of our RIR, Cleo, has decided she wants to pluck the feathers off the rump of our EE, Lady. We have 4 chickens and Cleo seems to leave everyone else alone. Odd part is that up until recently we would have said Lady was at the top of the pecking order...now not so much. They will just be...
Okay, newbie here asking the same question everyone else has already asked. How large should my outdoor run be? I have 4 standard size Hens. I read on here about 4-5 square feet per chicken, but then I have read elsewhere about numbers up to 12 square feet per bird. We have a coop that is...
Here is our EE "Lady Hawk". Such a sweet chicken. Loves to sit on your lap (or should or head) if you sit down outside she(?) comes running looking to jump up on your lap. I keep going back and forth on if she is indeed a she. My fiancé is comfortble she is a SHE but in the past week or so...
This is our 4.5 week old EE. Since she was about 1-2 weeks old or so has made this shrieking noise. So much so that in combination with her colorings we have named her Lady Hawk. The "cry" she makes reminds me of a bird of prey shriek. Its very loud and while this video gives you an idea of...