Amz87
Chirping
I have a weird question not sure if there will be answers for this so please forgive me if this makes no sense.
I have 4 hens, all roughly the same age. “Big Mumma” started laying on the 4th of June (and the start of winter here in Australia we get one egg from her a day) she’s a Plymouth Rock. Next to lay was “angel” she’s a gold laced barnevelders (we get 1-2 out of her a day depending on the temp of the day)Our 2nd barnie “spicy” looks like she will start laying very soon her comb and wattles are almost fully grown. But our 2nd Plymouth “Nigel” she’s the same age as big Mumma, who started laying 1st, well she’s the bottom of the pecking order in their group and her comb and wattle don’t look like they have grown hardly any since I got her as a young pullet.
Is this because she’s on the bottom of the pecking order and gets picked on/left out from time to time or maybe something else going on? She looks so funny fully grown quite large bird without a grown comb lol
I have 4 hens, all roughly the same age. “Big Mumma” started laying on the 4th of June (and the start of winter here in Australia we get one egg from her a day) she’s a Plymouth Rock. Next to lay was “angel” she’s a gold laced barnevelders (we get 1-2 out of her a day depending on the temp of the day)Our 2nd barnie “spicy” looks like she will start laying very soon her comb and wattles are almost fully grown. But our 2nd Plymouth “Nigel” she’s the same age as big Mumma, who started laying 1st, well she’s the bottom of the pecking order in their group and her comb and wattle don’t look like they have grown hardly any since I got her as a young pullet.
Is this because she’s on the bottom of the pecking order and gets picked on/left out from time to time or maybe something else going on? She looks so funny fully grown quite large bird without a grown comb lol