Hi, I have a white leghorn hen and a rooster. One day I saw how the feathers directly above her butt, just before the tail feathers, was brown. I think my rooster stepped in poo before he mounted her. I tried washing it off, but that didn't seem to work well, and after a week, she still smells...
Yeah, we've left them locked up for a solid month at least when my grandpa had a stroke in Colorado, so they've definitely got that down, and we do have fake eggs in the nests. They've all laid in there before.
Okay, that could be possible. I live in the far nw corner of Florida, it's been pretty close to 90°. As long as skipping days isn't too weird, especially for their age, I think I'll be okay. I've mostly just been worrying about if they'd crawled into the super thorny blackberry bush to lay.
I have seven hens and one roo, three of which started laying a week ago. I've been collecting the eggs from the nests. But for the last two days, I haven't been able to find two of my brown eggs. They have a coop that used to be a horse stall and their chicken run is about an eighth of an acre...
Hiya!! First off, I'm gonna answer the question things, there'll prob be a lot more than just the answer the things.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I grew up just with dogs in a small town with horses down the road. I loved visiting them and my mom would take me...