One of our chickens is laying these jelly eggs - this one with a bit of a tail. We are not sure what's going on. Our girls have plenty of calcium and all of the other girls have totally normal, hard, healthy, shells. The chicken is about 5 months old and just starting to lay, but we have never...
Thank you so much! I think you may be right. She may be making the injury worse by using it. I feel bad confining her, but I'll have to get over her being mad at me.
Our Barred Rock started limping 4 weeks ago. We immediately separated her from the flock and have been keeping her in a big box. We have also been letting her sleep in the house where she likes to perch on one of our kitchen chairs until we kick her out in the morning. We let her roam the yard...
My Barred Rock started limping 8 days ago and at first she would only want to lay down in the dirt. We immediately took her away from the flock because they were ganging up on her. There were no signs of injury and she could still curl her toes, still wanted to roost on our kitchen chair any...