It was just strange to see her put her wing over the other one. The top two dominant ones were the mean ones here and one of the submissives protected her. Pretty awesome.
I will use my hens names so it is less confusing (forgive me, my granddaughter named them not me lol) Hairball and Gladys were pecking on Elle, to my amazement Rosie (the biggest hen in my flock) jumped up onto the roost, put her wing over Elle and Rosie pecked at the other hens when they came...
I saw a thread from 2013 on this subject but didn't find any solutions so I am restarting a thread.
I couldn't figure out why one of my hens would lay in the nest for over an hour and then jump out "expelling" the egg on the hen house floor. I got my answer today. Three nests had hens in them...
They hatched April 13 so they are 23 weeks old. 6 are laying good eggs, one is still laying soft shelled eggs (for two days now, tomorrow should be a normal egg if she does what the other six did). Two hens started laying at 16 weeks.
I have one hen that just started a strange behavior. She will...
This is Blanca, does anyone have an idea what breed she is?
Peppy and Queenie, my two blue layers
Dave Morris photo bombing (only her face and breast is showing. Peppy is the other one
Queenie
My Granddaughter named all 7 of them.
Well, I'm not really sure lol. I have 3 Americanas, the other 4 I have no idea.
I thought the one black one is a black sex link. She has really pretty brown feathers (mixed into the black) around her neck and down onto her breast. I have one that is a reddish blonde and two really big black...
The little blue egg looks green in this pic. The white egg next to it is store bought for comparison. I have two that lay blue, one that lays light pink, one that lays dark pink (almost rose), one light brown, one very dark brown and one that hasn't started laying real eggs yet (just soft...