Hello everybody,
I am very new to chicken keeping and other then the welcome thread this is my first post.
Our flock of 5 consists of 3 Salmon Faverolles (supposodly from last season) and 2 Ameracaunas that are now 6 weeks old.
the 3 big ones have not yet laid an egg and we're starting to wonder.
One of our Questions are, is it normal for the hens to have different shape combs? 2 of the hens have small combs and the 3rd one has a very large, full looking comb, (It's hard to describe, but looking at the 3rd one it almost seems like the 2 are shrunken or missing something) Is this normal??
Other then that they seem very healthy, eat, drink, POOP!, follow us around and eat worms from our hands, which is adorable.
I'm not sure as to why, but it seems that one of them has diarreha? is this possible, I keep finding poops that are light brown, fluid, but also have that white stuff on them.
well all in all we're not very sure if these hens are really just from last season, we're starting to wonder if maybe they are much older??
well, my questions are: why are they not laying? and is it normal for the comb to be different size?
Please tell me what you need to know, like I said I'm very new to this.
Thank you so much,
Anna
I am very new to chicken keeping and other then the welcome thread this is my first post.
Our flock of 5 consists of 3 Salmon Faverolles (supposodly from last season) and 2 Ameracaunas that are now 6 weeks old.
the 3 big ones have not yet laid an egg and we're starting to wonder.
One of our Questions are, is it normal for the hens to have different shape combs? 2 of the hens have small combs and the 3rd one has a very large, full looking comb, (It's hard to describe, but looking at the 3rd one it almost seems like the 2 are shrunken or missing something) Is this normal??
Other then that they seem very healthy, eat, drink, POOP!, follow us around and eat worms from our hands, which is adorable.
I'm not sure as to why, but it seems that one of them has diarreha? is this possible, I keep finding poops that are light brown, fluid, but also have that white stuff on them.
well all in all we're not very sure if these hens are really just from last season, we're starting to wonder if maybe they are much older??
well, my questions are: why are they not laying? and is it normal for the comb to be different size?
Please tell me what you need to know, like I said I'm very new to this.
Thank you so much,
Anna