Tonight we lost one of our nearly one year old girls. Up until about a week ago she was spritely and normal. She started getting droopy, lethargic, didn't want to eat much, had white watery droppings, comb/wattle became pale. We separated her and checked her over. . . no signs of infection...
I'm curious about this as well. . . we have 14 girls (various breeds). One is definitely broody (golden wyandotte) and has been sitting on nothing for a good two weeks now. Despite that, we were still getting 11-13 eggs/day but the last 4 days we are down to 4-6/day. We are a family of 7 and...
My girls are about 5 months now and several of them have started laying. One of my gold sex links, Squirt was the first layer. About a week ago we go a soft egg and then she stopped production (we are assuming the soft shell was hers). At first she wasn't interested in eating, she stayed to...
Everyone in the household named one of ours... except me, that is!
Initially we brought home 6 chicks, then realized hubs had selected one straight run... since we can't keep roosters, if we have a boy, he'll have to be re-homed... so the child who named that one got to go back and pick out...