I know this was posted a while back, but I have the same issue. My Ameraucana started laying real late. when she was starting to lay, she was laying soft shell eggs in the beginning. I gave her some oyster shells to try and help but she just stopped for a while. She has been back up and...
I've seen one of these at my local TSC and they actually work pretty well. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/red-shed-egg-scale-90196338?cm_vc=-10005
not totally sure, but from a similar experience I had, try to keep her close to the other chickens (I separated my wounded chicken for too long and they wouldn't accept her back into the coop) and maybe every now and then put her in you're yard where she has room to get up and walk. also, she...
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personally, I'll typically set a Havahart trap and get it with a pellet gun in the morning, or ill sit and wait for them with a pellet gun. (they have a clean coop, its just a house across the street is abandoned and they come for the feed...
looks like a rooster, could you possibly post a pic of its tail feathers that's how I mainly tell. if the back feathers are pointy is a roo if it's female it will be rounder.
I have 4 chickens that were just recovering from mites, we had been giving them light at night and morning. and we stopped when we found out they had mites so they could focus on that. they recovered from that and 2 weeks ago I gave them more light, there getting enough but we aint getting any eggs.
My blue lace red Wyandotte started molting a few days ago and the others we think were pecking at her, we have her separated but she started pecking at it herself like pulling on the skin. She is almost down to the bone. She is in the dark so she won’t see it and peck at it any help would be...
Mine are from a local farm I think the name was Barnstable farm I got them while they were one day old! Where did you pre order from, I wanted to but all the websites say out of stock and don’t take pre orders?