So about 3 weeks ago. I picked up a RIR Hen from a friend.
The last 2 days all she has done is sit like a flat pancake on the ground and now refuses to come out of the roost.
When I go near her to check for eggs. She wiggles, but stay there. There is no eggs underneath her atm.
In the pecking...
So today.
I really wanted to get down and find out what "Speckles" is Hen or Cockerell.
So I got a friend to catch her. Too fast for me. Turned her upside down and what I discovered was a little round clean hole and that all I could find.
I have been racking my brain and Utubing like crazy...
Hi Susan.
Monday will be the start of some pretty bad heat waves. So Ill do that. Ill soak my chicken run trees and that should help them.
The other day I put a water melon out and the chooks loved it. Today for a treat they got meal worms.
Thanks for that hnady info.
The Comb just recently went darker. Ive also noticed its to feathers at the back are seperating and are slightly longer, not by much. All my senses are starting to say Cockerell. But my Alpha hen started like this. No spurs as of yet or stumps. Apart from the mounting behaviour. I guess time...
My chooks have a dust bath, a massive date palm that hangs over the "chook tronic" coop. When they free range, they always go under the house. Lots of shade,spiders, snails and other tasty morsells for them to forage on.
Around 7pm on a hot arvo. They might get a quick sprinkle of water. When i...
Hi my name is Lisa. From Albion Park Rail NSW Australia... Hello to my fellow Fowl friends
So you want to know a little bit about me. Im 47 now. My childhood consisted of living on a big Pullet farm filled with Suffix chickenschickens. Approx 5000 free range chicks to 10 week old chickens...
I got speckles from a rescue farm when she was 10 weeks old. Approx 20th November. So close to approx.
Yes this photo was taken yesterday 5th January.
I just saw speckles mount and hold on for dear life, my Henny Penny, right in front of me. Has she no shame lol.
Hi from Albion Park Rail NSW Australia
So ive had a load of information on my cheeky Speckles.
I keep on second guessing the chooks Gender. Tail feathers, Tall lanky legs.
THe chook is approx 4 months old. No crows, no spurs. In the pecking order she is at the bottom. Has been caught 3...