He has runny feces, he is constantly grooming himyself, he's pacing, and holding his beak slightly open. Right now, he is building a nest with the hen. The hen seems to be doing better now though.
I just got my rooster back from some neighbors who took it illegally to try to breed it for cockfighting. This rooster has already had a pretty hard life, he has had a heart attack that has probably left him with slight brain damage and has gotten his whole back plucked by a few of the other...
Actually, this particular hen was Known for hatching around 10, I had 12 of her chicks, but the neighbor's dog attacked and only the 3 hens survived, along with my 10 RSL hens.
That is a good idea, I Think already do something like that. I get home at 3 P.M everyday and let them out when I get home, at around 7 or 8, they all go back to the coop to sleep and I close the coop at 8:30. Is that enough time for them to promote laying?
Their mama hen wandered into my yard And I watched them grow for 3 months until mama stopped showing up, then I put them in a newly built pen. It has been little over a year and 1 month since then. One hen from this batch has been laying, and they are laying small white eggs, while my RSL hens...
I have a few hens that won't lay. they are over a year old and all the other hens in the coop are laying fine. one of these hens had pneumonia when I first got her, but she pulled through strong and seems unharmed. they are technically wild hens, but they were raised in a pen since they were...
I have 10 Red Star, or red sex-link, hens in my backyard and I was hoping to get them to lay and hatch, but these hens aren't a broody breed. does anyone know a way to get them to lay and hatch their own eggs without them being broody, or a way to induce broodiness upon them?