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By accident, i had an old english game banty from a retail store left over from the days when i was lost. I have 17 hens today and dont want to deal with roosters as im not a breeder. other than breeding this little guy provides everything a rooster can without damaging your girls, including...

I don't know your experience with this game but you will not like what happens when he comes back. when i have issues i bait a box trap right next to the coop with a can of tuna, it's worked in one night every time for over 30 years.

Welcome to byc!! That's just leghorns for ya, they will tolerate confinement, but are the worst of the worst at half-assed confinement. I know these birds well, mine free range, but I know they will settle down IF you can confine them. Their wings are so large and strong in comparison to their...

Droppings are solid, energy is high, but she can't stand her legs just don't want to work right, they're opening out sideways. She was fine before, maybe something genetic?

I know this has been asked before, but I've not seen it solved, I have a three week old white leghorn chick that's gone wobbly, with legs facing out, I know it could be serious, and contagious, do I need to cull? What do I need to do even if I do?

My EEs and Marans don't lay for anything in winter either, I've also just got some WLs, But they're still little girls, I just got a scale today, thanks for mentioning it! I hadn't gobbled it but I did the first beast she layed, and believe it or not it was even bigger than that! Those two went...

He most certainly did not, he's either got you beat or you have a screw loose.

I have two beautiful white marans in the flock, one of them all of a sudden started laying scale busters out of the blue, I'd think i found the golden goose, but this isn't right, the one on the bottom is what her normal sister is producing, what gives???

Wow! I find that interesting as well, I had no idea, and can't be alone, thanks for posting!

I'm in NE Oklahoma, and the weather is indeed unseasonably awful. She is right at a year old, there are two that are 13 months, and 3 that are 9 months old. Their coop is about 3x5 with 3 boxes and 3 roosts, with a run of 5x10 x 5 tall with 2 roosts, and they free range in the evenings and on...

I have a red hybrid farm store girl in the flock, my only hybrid, dark egg layer, and had the most perfect eggs since she started laying last fall. About a week ago the color went crazy, then she shut down, then layed one the size of Jupiter, now they're every three days and dented, oblong, just...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the ISA brown is bred to lay like wildfire til first molt, period. Around year three their bodies can't handle the production bred into them and they bind up and go:( they're not for the backyarder with a heart.

As a general rule you need a foot of roost space per bird, the run space is unimportant, if they fit it's good there.

Just getting back into this after a glorious childhood of it, funny what years do to your soul:). Everything I googled brought up comments from here, seemed like a place I belonged, can't wait to contribute, I'm a heritage guy who recently decided to add the white leghorn of said childhood to...