No eggs for a couple days; I didn't think much about it because they just started laying again a week or 2 ago. We live in the Hudson Valley, 3 nor'easters in a few weeks, snow just melting.
But then I found these today, 4 to 15 feet from the coop, in their run.
The girls are all ok and...
This all makes so much sense now.... eggs are down to one or 2 a day, one of the other birds had the same thing happen at the end of summer but never looked this bad. They are all the same brood but they are hybrids so a fair amount of variability.
What's the best way to supplement calcium...
The bird at 11:00 is Black Cheeks- she had been near the top of the pecking order for at least the past year; they will be all 2 years old in April. She appears happy, no signs of distress.
But in the last week or so she is loosing feathers; in the last few days it's apparent this is really...