Recent content by Shelly0723

Yeah, basically from the beginning we thought that Alan and Billy were boys, they started to chest butt each other at 2 weeks and at 4 weeks their combs and wattles became even more pronounced. We had also thought that Vincentina and Valentina were cockerels, but they have not developed bigger...

Here are Wilma, Alan and Vincentina, originally Bo but was later named Vincent but we think she is a hen so Tina for short, in the first pic and Billy in the second pic. For some strange reason Billy has that scraggly look about him😂 even though they all all fed the same.

We rarely pick her up, only when she is on the wrong side of the fence to throw her over. After these 2 episodes happened, she decided to go broody for 2 days and is now back to minding her own business and doing her own chicken thing. Although she is more noisy than before, but I will attribute...

After I posted this, I have been keeping an eye on her and after those 2 separate days of spitting up water, we have not seen it happen again, so they were isolated episodes we attributed to gorging on water and then bending down to eat food. She eats, drinks, poops and lays like normal. For a...

Thank you, I will feel her crop in the morning in case it is sour or impacted crop. This is where I got some of my info, after which I looked up what Ascites is and then it said it was water belly. https://hencam.com/henblog/2014/10/ascites-in-hens/

I recently noticed that my gentle giant, Blanca, my massive white hen, was becoming aggressive towards the other hens during feeding time. This has been happening for a week now. Today I noticed that she vomited a clear liquid onto her food and then proceeded to eat it along with the food. I...

I will try this with the white hen and see if the eggs that hatch are quieter. We know several people that have roosters, will see if they can lend us a rooster.

Thank you!

We got rid of the roosters 2 months ago, they all went through a mourning period where they barely ate and were not laying as many eggs for a few weeks (we took the eggs they were laying and hatched them (7 in incubator and 3 with the hen in avatar pic) so now we have 10 more plus 3 more pullets...

This is the egg next to a brown store bought large egg

This is when she was 5 months old. She has since gotten fluffier and a bigger comb

My neighbors complained about my roosters so I had to get rid of them. Now that my roosters are gone, 2 of my hens take turns and make a lot of noise throughout the day. We want to avoid the city telling us we need to get rid of all our hens. Is there any chicken breed that is naturally...

I have 8 hens and hatched 10 chicks 4 weeks ago, the times that they have gotten out while I am trying to replace their feed and water, only the bottom of the pecking order and my trouble making hen attacked them. They are otherwise left alone. My suggestion would be to introduce them when they...

I use Henhouse and Chickhouse Reserve for my hens and baby chicks. They hated it. They don't like scratch or pellet feed so would not touch it. I then started to mix the Henhouse/ Chickhouse Reserve with pellet feed (crumble feed for the baby chicks) and soak it so the pellets in Kalmbach feed...

Yes, they would wait until they were sure I was not going to feed them the treats and then go and start eating their food. Now they eat their food just fine, no fussy eating.