Our rooster is very friendly and responds to the name "Brownie". We thought he was a girl as a baby and it ended up he wasn't. We love him and he is beautiful, but he's just too loud. We don't want to anger our neighbors. Today he walked right up the back steps to the storm door and met the...
I have an approx 18 week old LO hen and she has begun tripping over things and falling over. She even will eat laying down, although she is not over weight and feels light to pick up. It has been very hot here and the other chicks with her have coccidosis I believe. I am treating all with...
I have an EE who lays soft shelled eggs. One got broken inside and I had to manually pull the shell out. She then went into a short molt, and did lay another egg for like 3 weeks. She laid a few hard eggs and then I started finding yolks in the coop, under the roost pole again. The she broke...
I have a 3 month old Pekin female who has always stood her own in the coop with the 7 month old hens. They get along great. EXCEPT....I have recently noticed that this same Pekin female steals their feathers and eats them! My BR has a bald spot on her back where her wings meet. I yell at...
So the weather has been incredibly hot! I brought my two large chickens into the house and put them in an old dog crate. They stopped panting almost immediately, however they became very messy quickly. Pine shavings were everywhere! Like up to 10 feet away from the crate.....They had to go...