Is this common? It has happened a couple of times since winter started. It is not the same bird either. When I collect the eggs I notice some blood on the shell.
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I can't tell for my two Aracaunas. At the beginning of the stop is egg laying production. There were feathers here and there, and they slowed egg laying down. If they are molting, they are birds that are unobvious. They still look really good and full of feathers.
Same here. We have 11. All but two are egg laying. We went from 6-8 eggs a day to 2-6. Sometimes we get 6, but it is like maybe twice a week. We are in NH and it has been really hot. MAybe it is the weather? Though I say that only about the others. Not the Barred and Aracaunas.
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I have two Aracaunas that turned a year around April. About a month ago they stopped laying. Is this normal?
A few weeks ago, we resued a Barred Rock year old hen. She stopped laying two weeks prior with her orignal family due to stress caused by foxes eating her entire flock. We...
Hi have a RI Red that I thought loss feathers due to the stress of her move to us. She is 1 and we got her in April. She still looks terrible. She lost a lot of feathers on her chest and head behing comb. Her chest feathers seem to be growing back, but oh so slowly. Is this common. She is...
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Thanks. We have considerd that, thinking 5 birds instead of one may help all the newbies. I may try and let her out today and hope she doesn't run away.