I have what I believe is a brahma hen that is have an issue of her droppings collecting on her feathers. I don't want it to cause issues so I need to get rid of it but I don't want to hurt her in the process and I was wondering if anyone knows how to prevent it from happening.
I am getting some fertilized eggs from a co-worker to put under a broody hen (no longer have a rooster) and I am wondering how long they can go once laid before they need to be put under the hen. I requested 4 eggs just to increase the chance of actually having a chick hatch, however, she only...
I have 4 pullets that are roughly 8-9 weeks old. I'm needing to add them to an existing flock and I'm wondering about the feed. The pullets are on a growing feed and the existing flock are on a Layena+Omega 3 pellet. I would really like to keep them on that because they're eggs have been great...
They both used the same box every day (we have 5 boxes). And then right when they quit laying we found one outside the box. I've been looking everyday to see if there are anymore outside the boxes and haven't seen any, however I do use the deep litter method and they could have fallen into the...
I have 2 laying hens and 5 that haven't started laying. I am still feeding them starter feed but give them oyster shells. Should I just switch to a layer feed since the younger pullets are almost at laying age?
They aren't free range, they have a run at the moment. Not small not huge, hope to expand it soon. I feed them starter feed because I have only 2 laying and 5 not but they have access to oyster shell. Live in North Texas.
They are roughly 7 months old, the days seem to getting longer and they don't visually seem to be molting. We did find 1 egg outside of they're normal nesting box. It just odd that they laid regularly almost every day for a month and then suddenly nothing
My RIR and EE girl started laying about a month ago and then both quit laying about 5 days ago. Nothing that I can tell has changed, in fact it has warmed up.