I know this exact question has been asked. But the threads are from 2007 and 2008. So I thought it best to ask again.
We are thinking of moving to Weymouth MA. This isn't definite. What process do we have to go through to keep our chickens?
Is there any limit? We currently have 12 hens and a roo.
It's hard to tell & impossible to get a good picture of but at least two of our sex link hens have much larger right breasts. It's odd.
We figure it's because they're production hens & weren't bred for their looks. We still love the goofy looking girls!
Is this molting, hen pecking or stress?
Our sex link Snowball is looking rough. Bare or broken feathers on her wings & chest.
Her wing feathers are bare in places.
One of our young sex links, Cinnamon, is biting our rooster Luke on his beak, comb and wattle. She's relentless. It's like she's hen pecking him! He's starting to look rough.
This is new behavior that we can tell. It might be in reaction to the four new hens we just added to his flock. I'll...
One of our Barred Plymouth Rocks laid an olive colored egg. Same color as our young easter eggers. This is the second time. Not sure if it's the same hen. Our neighbors have Rhode Island Reds that laid eggs olive colored eggs during the coldest days of winter. What causes this, should we be...
Has this happened to anyone?
The cord had wires showing so we wrapped it with electrical tape. We bought this thing in November. This week the cord came off in my hand.
I think she's a mutt.
Fuzzy pic of her face.
Here's her first egg. It's bigger than the eggs we get from our older barred rocks & ameracaunas.
Thoughts?
We think we have at least three possibly four roos among the eight chickens we got. We got them to be Luke's ladies, he's the grown Red Roo.
If only they'd stay still, I could get better pictures.