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Here is a picture of her last week.

8 hens to one rooster. He's a Cornish bantam and a very heavy boy. we de spurred him last night as well. I hope that will help. At the moment the naked one is separated with one other hen who is also looking rough, but her pin feather are coming in wonderfully. She's eating and drinking...

So long story short...back in july a almost 3 year-old RIR hen started losing feathers. Hen pecked, over breeding, and molting were the suspects. She never grew them back while the other molters are. She has been separated and fed high protein foods. I made her a saddle to help keep her warm...

I'm making a Saddle for her this comming weekend. Hopefully it will help keep her warm and help any future picking and over breeding. I suspect she must be the favorite or perhaps low in the pecking order and is being dominated by everyone else. Will be getting her feather fixer tomorrow for...

My hens molted hard this year. One is nearly naked. But she's been this way for months which led me to believe we had feather pickers. I gave more protein and 2 weeks later the rest look great but the naked one is still naked. I separated her and 2 others. Noticed one picking so i tossed her...

Well, if they were 18 weeks when you bought them, you should be getting eggs at any time. The stress of a new home could delay them, but if it's been seven weeks then they should be used to their new area by now. Have you been getting a lot of rain? Is it very hot? Very cold? Extream weather...

Thank you! I have been weighing her, so I can keep track of her growth compared to her siblings. Today we gave her 14ml and she is about 340 grams. So that works out well. We'll be giving her another 10-15 ml tonight.

At a week old she was picked on by her siblings and developed a bleeding wound under her beak. I pulled her out and treated it and she was fine for another week. Then the beaks started to grow uneven. I think this is due to the wound as it must have damaged the growth plates and not a genetic...

She's a EE. We are determined to get at least two years out of her. If not more. I just dont want her to always be obsessed about eating and still being smaller than the rest.

I've a cross beak chick. I haven't the heart to cull her out. She eats on her own but struggles to get enough. I noticed that she's starting to grow slower than her siblings. We weighed her on a empty crop and then again after she has a hour with food. She gained 16 grams. She seems constantly...

I get my seeds from Tractor supply and a local feed store. Oats, corn , barley, wheat, sunflower seeds. Lentils, ect.. i believe the process is the same for all seeds. The times are just different.

She's confined to a coop and run. So she can't stash her eggs. I was told she was some sort of game breed. I'm thinking she must be a seasonal layer, as you say. Here's her picture

So my bantam went broody sometime in June. She had 5 little bantam eggs to sit on. We left her alone. 3 weeks later she was still on them so we candled the eggs and saw that they were duds. Not fertilized. Bantam rooster didn't do his job. We took them away. She was back to her regular self 2...

Good luck! hope it turn out well!

Yes, I had a talk with Mr. Man and decided it's best to not tempt fate and just keep them appart until they are old enough for the coop. Pecking order will be established one way or the other. I assume they could better deal with being pecked at as older birds rather than as Littles. ETA...

Here are my littles. The one with the bug eye is by itself. I think mostly because it can't see that the other two wander off. And not because it's being excluded. All three are eating. Super nervous about putting them in with my 4 week old EEs there's 4 of them but they look like monsters...

Rhode Island Reds They lay daily Large to extra large eggs. Super mild, and take well to being confined in a run. A very good starting chicken.

Ugh.... Poor thing. I'm doing some research on it right now. I guess it's not immediately a death sentence?

4 week old EE was normal looking 2 days ago. And now this? Is this scissor beak? I haven't seen this before. Only heard about it.

What bands do you use? I was wanting to band my chiken, but every band I look at seem to have bad reviews.