Koutnik
Hatching
- Mar 4, 2017
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Just joined today but have enjoyed your Website for over a year. I raised chickens as a little girl, and last year Hubby and I got a property in the country where we had a house built and we can have chickens. We started our little flock last year with 10 rhode island reds. They were supposed to all be pullets but 2 ended up be cockerals. They grew into mean buggers! One got introduced to the axe last fall and the other walks a thin line everyday. Our hens are sweet and good producers. We added 3 new chicks to the flock this morning. They are Buff Orpingtons and they will be in their brooding pen under the lights for a while before we introduce them to the Rhodies.
I joined today because I have some concerns. We have some bare backed hens. I think they are from the rooster as we have caught any in the act of plucking themselves or each other. With 8 girls you would think he could share the love but he seems to favor 4 of them. The others have no missing feathers.
We also have some very strange looking eggs over the past 3 days and today was the strangest. They look rumpled and ridged in places and one almost looks like a ball of crumpled paper. What is causing this? Are the eggs still okay to eat?
Glad to be here and we will be looking for answers.
Susie and Jeff Koutnik
I joined today because I have some concerns. We have some bare backed hens. I think they are from the rooster as we have caught any in the act of plucking themselves or each other. With 8 girls you would think he could share the love but he seems to favor 4 of them. The others have no missing feathers.
We also have some very strange looking eggs over the past 3 days and today was the strangest. They look rumpled and ridged in places and one almost looks like a ball of crumpled paper. What is causing this? Are the eggs still okay to eat?
Glad to be here and we will be looking for answers.
Susie and Jeff Koutnik