Thanks for all the info. We'll wait it out for now and see how she does. No egg today, only a few poops, and her prolapse has stayed inside which is good. Other than being a bit stunned and confused as to why she's in the bathtub she seems pretty lively. She ate a little bit of food, there is a...
We do feed her layer feed and they have a dish of oyster shell available but I never seem them eating it :(
Hmm, so we might have to find a way to permanently stop her from laying?
I will call around to see if there is a vet around here who sees chickens. I think most of them don't.
Not sure what else to do!
Last night I noticed our 2 year old Rhode Island red had a big mess of poop and a soft egg shell stuck to her booty. When we grabbed her and started cleaning her up with warm water we noticed a rather large vent prolapse. After some research on BYC and other sites, we...
We have a rat terrier as well. VERY high prey drive. He goes nuts every time there is a squirrel, and I honestly don't think there's any way to train "squirrel mode" out of him. That being said, when we got our chicks he was REALLY interested in them but maybe not "squirrel mode" level. I was...
Anyone in the Silicon Valley/San Jose area recommend a good place to get chicken feed? We are currently buying from An-Jan but our last batch of feed had some yucky stuff in it so we are wondering if it is low quality or if maybe it's expired? (Is that a thing?)
We are experiencing a drop in...
We only have 3 ladies, but they were all great egg layers until about 2 weeks ago suddenly barely any eggs. We got them as chicks last summer and they started laying in Dec/Jan and we got LOTS of eggs from Jan until now. I assume it is the changing seasons. The eggs we do get sometimes have a...
Hello all,
So I noticed a little while ago my Barred Rock "Pepper", had a bald patch on her neck/chest. I think it was from her going at the feeder a little too hard. We adjusted the height of the feeder so she can reach it better without rubbing her neck on it.
Then I noticed the feathers...
One of our girls decided to stop using the nest box this week. We noticed a big squabbling and screeching outside - the problem was she was trying to get into the same nest box that was already occupied! (She actually did cram herself in there at one point somehow) Needless to say the girl...
Funny how their personalities can be different! We have 3 chickens: one RIR, one Barred Rock and one Black Australorp. The RIR is the sweetest girl of the bunch. She is also our best egg layer - the eggs are a bit small but she lays almost every day! The BR is 2nd in egg laying, she takes one...
Felt the need to put my 2 cents about sand somewhere. This is our first year with chickens so we are figuring out what works best for us.
We have a small run/coop combo since the girls free range all day. The coop portion has wood shavings with a pull-out drawer for cleaning. That part works...
Our BA finally laid her first egg a few days ago! It is really funny because it was big long egg! She was "cooking" that one for a while. I just started laughing when I saw it in the nest box because she is such a character, of COURSE she would lay a funky huge egg.
Now we have an abundance...
Don't know if this is the same experience for others, but the 2 girls who are laying had a dramatic change in their comb size and redness right when they started laying. I hadn't thought their combs could get any bigger since they hadn't changed in months but then suddenly BAM, even bigger...
Darnit. The other 2 girls still aren't laying and I put the rest of the grower food in the feeder today. I have put out oyster shells but it doesn't look like they've touched them. Do they just not eat a whole lot of it? They are free range so maybe they are getting a good diet from whatever...
Ours are close to 31 weeks now, 1 out of 3 is laying. Ginger, who started laying almost 2 weeks ago is a champ! She lays 3 days on 1 day off. The eggs are a good size for a beginner and the shells are thicker than store eggs so it seems like she quite healthy.
Can't wait for the other two to...
Got some oyster shells yesterday. Going to see if another of the girls start laying before we run out of food and will make the call when the food is almost out... hoping we have more layers by then!! If not more grower food with oyster shell it is.
That is probably true!
We got our 3rd egg from her today. She's on a roll! She's gotta teach the other two how to do it and then we'll be able to do some holiday baking
We have 3 chickens, one, our RIR just layed her first egg yesterday. I think another one, our BR is going to be pretty soon. Our BA seems like she might have a while to go still when we checked her pelvic bones they were very narrow still. They are all the same age, 29 weeks old.
We are...