Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but…
when locking the birds up for the night, we found this in the lay box. Anyone ever see anything like this before?
is there any chicken safe variety of lawn fertilizer available? I am trying to grow some grass in the yard to get some green back. But do not want to harm the girls.
Hmmmm.. How to describe a sound... It sounds like the bird has laryngitis, and after a few crows s/he goes through the motions of trying to crow, but no sound.
Maybe I can get s short video when it happens again. It is usually only in the morning and only for a short time.
Or maybe I am in denial and my hen really is a rooster...
I have a California white hen(?) and recently she started "crowing" in the morning. I have read that a dominant female in the absence of a rooster will take on the rooster role. If I temporarily house her in an environment where there...
So here is an update. My vet was thinking possibly dietary. Even though the birds are eating Lay Pellet and there is always oyster shell out to eat, perhaps they are not processing the calcium properly. I have been brining them in for Vitamin injections for the past 3 weeks and now one of the...
I have taken them to a vet and no parasites were found and respiratory they sounded fine. Apart from the lay pellet I will give them scrap table greens - lettuce, celery leaves, carrot tops, apple. And here is my coop...
The run area is 5' x 10' and the upper sleeping area is 3' x 5'...
I have a pair of 2 year old Golden Sex Link hens and one stopped laying while molting at the end of last season, started laying again for about 2 weeks then has just stopped. My other is periodically (every 3 days or so) dropping yolks around the yard. Eventually we will find a membrane, but...