California - Northern

[ronott1]

****. im noe noy getting any eggs from my standards and i just checked amd no one has lice but they stipl have like bare spots from qhen thy molted help?

A good place to start is with what feed you are using. They need a good layer to lay eggs.

They could be molting again and they do stop laying when they go broody. Of course the weather change can lower production.

 

[EZFarms]

I had to chamge feedfrom purina to homegrown this month but its all layer crumble. they have also had the bare spots for several months (i did have roos in with them though so thay could explain some)
they get feed and water green veggies and time outside tgeir run so idk

 

[ronott1]

I had to chamge feedfrom purina to homegrown this month but its all layer crumble. they have also had the bare spots for several months (i did have roos in with them though so thay could explain some)
they get feed and water green veggies and time outside tgeir run so idk

It is possible that they have feather lice. It is best to dust for that using something like Sevin dust.

Repeat after two weeks.

Hopefully it is just the weather change although I am not too impressed with homegrown. Our TSC is carrying Dumor layer now along with Purina.

 

[BCollie]

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Not a coop, actually, a pen. They're not old enough to be in the coop with the big girls yet, so I set up a covered pen outside for them with a little roost, but they prefer to sleep on the ground for some reason. The pen is on the ground inside the secure chicken run. There's five of them in the pen - two Marans, a Cream Legbar, and now the two Polish.

 

[caychris]

Not a coop, actually, a pen. They're not old enough to be in the coop with the big girls yet, so I set up a covered pen outside for them with a little roost, but they prefer to sleep on the ground for some reason. The pen is on the ground inside the secure chicken run. There's five of them in the pen - two Marans, a Cream Legbar, and now the two Polish.

Can you add a box or tub to the pen so they are not on the ground and can trap some body heat.

 

[BCollie]

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Good idea. I have a small plastic tub that I can turn on it's side, they can go in there if they want to. I'll see if I can raise it off the ground a little, too.

 

[BCollie]

Why do my hens have broken feathers on their backs? Only 2 of the 5 don't have broken feathers like in the photo below. They've been looking like this for a long time. I don't have a roo so I know that isn't what's causing it.

 

[casportpony]

Why do my hens have broken feathers on their backs? Only 2 of the 5 don't have broken feathers like in the photo below. They've been looking like this for a long time. I don't have a roo so I know that isn't what's causing it.

Did you by chance de-worm them with Safeguard when they were molting? Maybe lice or mites?

-Kathy

 

[juststruttin]

I haven't tried that but I do put several different age groups together in the grow out bins with no problem.
I wish I could come to your seminar & you could come to my party. I have CLB eggs coming from a local "Chicken Lovin" friend that will be at the party so technically I do not have CLB yet but hope to soon.

I know. I am totally bummed our events landed on the same weekend. Next time.

 

[caychris]

My daughter went to check on my Dels last evening before it got dark they had gone into the coop but she couldn't see them through the window. So she opened the lid to the nest box and all 4 dels were in one box (there are 2 and they are not that big of a box) bedded down. I guess at the end of the day all the squabbles are done and they need each other again. Funny things. Cant wait to see what happens when they get moved out of this home to the big coop.