- Jun 3, 2009
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I am not sure if I am even talking about the same bird, but tonight when I went to close the hen house I could see where a bird had dropped almost clear water. I do have a bird with a white backend most of the time.
A little history on my flock will help. About a month ago my husband, without knowing(?) bought ten hens who had symptoms of mites. They had red skin and feather missing down their backs and in the vent area. After I figured out what was wrong with them we treated their house, their nests and them. Hubby bought something at the feed store to mix and put in the sprayer. Most of the bird are making great strides at putting on new feathers. Miss Dirty Butt is not. I do not know the age of these birds but we were getting up to 9 eggs a day. Our eggs are fabulous and everybody wanted some. Hubby decided to get more birds. These were healthy, beautiful rose-comb RIR + 2 barred rock. Our original birds were 1/2 RIR and 1/2 Barred Rock. He insisted in putting them in straight away. We had a few squabbles. One of the new rocks seemed very unhappy from day one and died after about three. One of our original rock also died. Their deaths are a mystery. Today I got 11 eggs from 15 hens. I have been busy teaching school so I don't know who is laying and who is not. Need to shut up and start researching. Thanks for any advice. Carol
A little history on my flock will help. About a month ago my husband, without knowing(?) bought ten hens who had symptoms of mites. They had red skin and feather missing down their backs and in the vent area. After I figured out what was wrong with them we treated their house, their nests and them. Hubby bought something at the feed store to mix and put in the sprayer. Most of the bird are making great strides at putting on new feathers. Miss Dirty Butt is not. I do not know the age of these birds but we were getting up to 9 eggs a day. Our eggs are fabulous and everybody wanted some. Hubby decided to get more birds. These were healthy, beautiful rose-comb RIR + 2 barred rock. Our original birds were 1/2 RIR and 1/2 Barred Rock. He insisted in putting them in straight away. We had a few squabbles. One of the new rocks seemed very unhappy from day one and died after about three. One of our original rock also died. Their deaths are a mystery. Today I got 11 eggs from 15 hens. I have been busy teaching school so I don't know who is laying and who is not. Need to shut up and start researching. Thanks for any advice. Carol