I think I have girl with an egg lodged also! I have lost two girls & my beautiful Buff Brahma rooster in the last few months. One of my girls I found just dead one morning when I went to feed no sign of trauma or stuck egg I could find the other girl just disappeared no sign of hawks or eagles...
What is the best thing to mark eggs with you are trying to get your hen to sit on and hatch? I tried a permanent black sharpie but the next day all but one was rubbed off.
RIR's should produce eggs for up to 7 years they have never laid more than a dozen or so per week between the 5 of them.
I can't be sure but I think I have one that has never starting laying.
Is that possible to have a hen that never lays eggs?
I have been letting my 5 hens and 1 rooster out every day to feed on grass and bugs and such the hens are still eating plenty of layer pellets and none of them will eat the oyster bits I purchased so how do I get calcium in them do I need to buy liquid calcium I can put in their water?
Most of the time you can hold them upside down by their feet and if they pull up they are hens if not they are rooster. This is how my Papa always did it and it was true to form.
I am not new to the forum just haven't been on in awhile.
My rhode island reds which are 2 years old this month have stopped laying. Live in Northeast Texas it has been pretty warm and really humid plus during 4th of July there were so many fireworks shot off around my neighborhood I am...