Arizona Chickens

[CaroleW]

You are right... hens can be so different due to their environment (as well as personality or breed).

My first flock in 2010 I got 3 pullets hand-raised by homeschoolers (2 Black Sex-Links, 1 RIR) and 4 Golden Comets (sex-links) from a farmer. The difference in those groups was nite and day - but they all warmed up to me and had to live together. One from each group lived until 10 years (stopped laying around year 6).

 

[springvalley123]

The other 3 we think are just easter eggers. Found this pic of them...not the clearest but kinda shows what they look like. Their eggs are small and a pale green/blue. (Aren't easter eggers just mixed "mutts"?)

They may be mutts, but they're mutts with a purpose! I think it's cool to get the colorful eggs.

 

[CaroleW]

Snow in the run on 12/12/22

Juveniles in the Greenhouse grow pen...
NN/Beilefelder cockerel... look how red he is...beautiful!

 

[BlueBaby]

Snow in the run on 12/12/22
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Juveniles in the Greenhouse grow pen...View attachment 3350552
NN/Beilefelder cockerel... look how red he is...beautiful!
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It look's like Roger was completely ignoring you in that picture.

Have you decided on a name yet for the NN/Bielefelder cockerel? Where's his mother at?

 

[CaroleW]

It look's like Roger was completely ignoring you in that picture.

Have you decided on a name yet for the NN/Bielefelder cockerel? Where's his mother at?

Yes everyone was searching for the treasure of BOSS and millet I hid in the straw! And you know how expert I am at fluffy butt pics!

Cockeral has no name yet. They are all in the divided pen with her on other side of the exclusion gate - I didn't get her in the pic. She likes to chase them all and especially show HIM who's boss.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes everyone was searching for the treasure of BOSS and millet I hid in the straw! And you know how expert I am at fluffy butt pics!

Cockeral has no name yet. They are all in the divided pen with her on other side of the exclusion gate - I didn't get her in the pic. She likes to chase them all and especially show HIM who's boss.

Typical animal, food rates higher attention.

Maybe cockerel will end up naming himself like my rooster Hawkeye did.

 

[NuggetMama]

Ugh my barred rock hen takes her job of keeping her flock safe from the other chickens. She throws herself at the other run and has now broken her beak.. do y’all have any problems like this??? We just moved so have to keep both flocks in the garage.. this is her little face.

Do y’all know what I should do for her cause it’s a pretty nasty break

 

[CaroleW]

Ugh my barred rock hen takes her job of keeping her flock safe from the other chickens. She throws herself at the other run and has now broken her beak.. do y’all have any problems like this??? We just moved so have to keep both flocks in the garage.. this is her little face.

Do y’all know what I should do for her cause it’s a pretty nasty break

I don't know how deep your girls break goes but I had a cross-beak girl who partially broke off part of her beak and it bled like crazy. I was going to cut off the hanging-by-a-thread-piece-of-beak but by the time I gathered stuff, it had fallen off in her quarantine pen. In quarantine a few days and then back to flock. She is fine now (months later) and she is still cross-beak.

 

[NuggetMama]

I don't know how deep your girls break goes but I had a cross-beak girl who partially broke off part of her beak and it bled like crazy. I was going to cut off the hanging-by-a-thread-piece-of-beak but by the time I gathered stuff, it had fallen off in her quarantine pen. In quarantine a few days and then back to flock. She is fine now (months later) and she is still cross-beak.

Her’s bled like crazy too! We went to repair it like I had read on another thread but by the time we did that, it broke off completely and she won’t let us take her away from her flock. Chased her all over the run then she jumped into her coop and hid in a corner where I can’t reach! I was able to spray Vetericyn on the beak, since it’s a spray, but that’s about it.

Should I fight with her to take her away from her flock?

The flock she argues with are three laying hens while she is in a flock of four. Her being the top hen and our best layer.

 

[CaroleW]

Her’s bled like crazy too! We went to repair it like I had read on another thread but by the time we did that, it broke off completely and she won’t let us take her away from her flock. Chased her all over the run then she jumped into her coop and hid in a corner where I can’t reach! I was able to spray Vetericyn on the beak, since it’s a spray, but that’s about it.

Should I fight with her to take her away from her flock?

The flock she argues with are three laying hens while she is in a flock of four. Her being the top hen and our best layer.

Vetricyn seems good to me, that's what I would use. I would keep an eye to make sure she's not bleeding (which attracts others to peck at her) and use the spray to keep it disinfected as well as you can.

If you have a net to catch her next time (if you need to separate her due to bleeding) that helps (but it could also snag on her beak). Or maybe a towel without loops to catch on it.

EDIT-- I've researched the Vetricyn chemical and it's very mild but effective so from my own research (please research it for yourself) I've decided it's safe to spray even on skin or face. It's also found in other packaging and you can even make it using a machine since the chemical is not stable for long periods of time.