Maine

[superchemicalgirl]

What's an RCBL?

 

[buckabucka]

Rose comb brown leghorn?
DMRippy has white leghorns, I think. I don't know a local source unless you want to try Trader Joe's.....

 

[IZZYBELLA]

Hello Fellow Mainers North Haven Maine here

I'm late here, but welcome vbrown!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Rose comb brown leghorn?
DMRippy has white leghorns, I think. I don't know a local source unless you want to try Trader Joe's.....

Trader Joes in Boston last time I had someone check didn't have fertile eggs.

 

[lazy gardener]

Haven't heard from Jazor for a while. I think he has leghorns.

 

[Marcy54]

I have a heated water dish, my coop isn't insulated. It is small. Fits a dozen hens, we have eleven as of yesterday, and a rooster. I picked up a cuckoo marans, an orloff, and a blue egg layer, I have eight wyandottes, and a rir too. My new chicks are being quarantined in my a-frame for a week or two. The regular flock checked them out while ranging tonight. They are all close in age. The orloff is younger, but seems feisty. I am thinking of wrapping the coop with plastic or tarps except for some upper vent holes. Still trying to figure out the run area. Has anyone tried one of those green houses or hoop house garages?

 

[dowgirl71]

I just went on the first aid thread and couldn't find what I was looking for. So, I'll ask here. My EE hen who is about a year and a half was acting a little funny, today. I really can't figure out if she's not feeling well or not. I noticed her just standing outside, kinda' puffed up, while the rest of my flock foraged around. She did that a couple times and then, would just act like normal, pecking around like the rest of the girls. She seems to be eating normal and came running for treats with the rest of them. She hasn't laid any eggs for probably about a week. So, I checked to see if maybe she was egg bound, but didn't feel anything. She seemed to go through a mini molt, earlier this fall, but I thought that was over, and she did continue to lay, while that was going on. Any thoughts?

 

[buckabucka]

Some of mine act really sick when they begin molting. I'd keep an eye on her for a bit and see if she gets better, worse, or if she starts dropping feathers.

 

[longgrove]

Does anyone know of someone/business that processes birds? Have two bully roos and two guineas who are bullying/attacking the laying hens to an unacceptable degree. This is way beyond normal pecking order or mating behavior. Everyone, even the dominant hens and the roo's favorites are missing most of the feathers on their back and neck. Chicken saddles (two styles) have not helped. They tag team the hans and while the dominant roo mates the hen, the black roo and guineas peck the hen's heads. The guineas attack the hens (except the banty hen who brooded them) who approach the treat bowl. Meanwhile, the dominant roo "tid bits" the guineas (one of whom is, I'm pretty sure, a cock). Currently, I'm rotating the bullys from the wire kennels (while the nice roo and the hens are in the coop and pen) to the pen (with the doors to the pen closed and the hens safely in the coop). In nearly 40 years of raising chickens ad ducks, I've never had this big a problem with aggression.

I don't think of the chickens in the sense of meat but in this case the bullys have brought it on themselves. Can't picture doing it myself (too hard from a wheelchair). Hope I can find someone I can pay to do so and save the rest of the flock. I live between Bangor and Ellsworth so the closer to that area the better.

 

[IZZYBELLA]

I just went on the first aid thread and couldn't find what I was looking for. So, I'll ask here. My EE hen who is about a year and a half was acting a little funny, today. I really can't figure out if she's not feeling well or not. I noticed her just standing outside, kinda' puffed up, while the rest of my flock foraged around. She did that a couple times and then, would just act like normal, pecking around like the rest of the girls. She seems to be eating normal and came running for treats with the rest of them. She hasn't laid any eggs for probably about a week. So, I checked to see if maybe she was egg bound, but didn't feel anything. She seemed to go through a mini molt, earlier this fall, but I thought that was over, and she did continue to lay, while that was going on. Any thoughts?

How is the coloring in her comb and wattles? Is her crop hard or squishy?