Nevadans?

[RulerOfTheSkies]

Please check this out. I have wanted to tell someone for a while.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/790231/my-secret-confession-a-story-of-who-i-really-am

 

[Chictaw]

I don't know that the heat and runny poops would give her scabs unless she is chapped. Lice are really hard to see as they move very very quickly away when the area is exposed to light. When I've found lice on my birds, they've usually been on the outside of the thigh in the thick feathers or under the wings. You have to have your eyes in focus already because they scoot!

Thank you for your advise...but I lost her tonight. We had company and we were sitting in the yard, when my granddaughter picked her up and brought her to me. She seemed very listless and all of a sudden she fell back and died in my arms. It was so sad she was our favorite. We had her in a little house up close to the house because the other birds were always picking on her. We brought her back from being very sick from them picking on her. She was getting fat and happy. We can't figure out what happen to her. She quit laying a couple of days ago and we think maybe she was egg bound. Her name was Sweetpea, because she was so sweet and lovable. She will be missed terribly .

 

[Lacy Blues]

I'm so sorry you lost her.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

if anyone wants to breed for a heat hardy olive egger let me know.
I am offering up a few of my Black Penedesenca roosters.
Black penedesenca are super heat hardy and very alert. They lay a dark dark brown egg and you can breed them to blue / green egg layers to get some great olive eggers

 

[eggxelent]

I give my flock all kinds of frozen fruit and yogurt on hot days. I just run leftover fruit through the blender and put it in ice cube trays, same with plain yogurt. I do the same thing for my dogs with the "Frosty Paws" recipe.

I like to wash down their run with cool hose water too, the pea gravel that's in mine can heat up quickly

Thanks! I'll try that.

 

[eggxelent]

So I was wondering about something... My pullets were born Feb. 7 this year. I noticed Gretel making an unusual sound and I've never heard an egg song but this sure sounded like my idea of a "classic hen sound". I looked all over for an egg, but didn't find anything. Gretel has not made the sound since and I haven't noticed anyone laying down for any unusual period of time in a secluded place or anywhere else. So, I need two things.
1. A recording of an egg song to see if Gretel really was singing an egg song or just an unusual noise.
2. A way to see if a pullet is laying.
Thanks!
~Eggxelent

 

[sherylreno]

Go to youtube and type in chicken egg song and you'll find tons of them but they don't always do an egg song unless you have older hens already doing them, it usually takes them a bit until they do them. You can tell when a chicken is ready when they start going in and out of the laying area. You can also lift them up and check their vent, their vent gets really moist when they are ready to lay eggs. Other than doing those things you can't really tell. I had a chicken plop an egg in the middle of the run and then go back with the other chickens for a bit and then run inside the coop to lay an egg that wasn't there. I thought she was going to lay and another chicken had already laid an egg but nope it was her, I found that out the next day and she was 16 weeks old when she started laying. Chickens are usually around 20 weeks or more before they lay eggs but you may have an early layer which could mean she will stop earlier than the others as well.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I disagree, a lot of times chickens will sing the egg song and start squatting up to a week before they begin to lay

 

[sherylreno]

I agree with you as well Aubrey but I had several hens not do the egg song until they were laying after awhile like Amanda.

 

[2seth2]

Anyone have their birds become friends with wild birds? I have seen a pair of quail next to my coop for a few days now.