I have a flock of 14 hens about 5 months old. One has started laying for about a week now. Today I found a soft shelled egg in the coop. Is it normal at the beginning of laying for them to lay a soft shelled egg?
I have 15 week old chickens outside. I haven’t ever given them any medications. It’s hot and summer time and I’m wondering when/if I should deworm them all?
What brand and dosage if it matters?
Yep she sure did still have that! I didn’t know what that was. At first I thought it was poop but indeed it was her egg tooth. I’m running to check the other babies now…
I just ran and checked the rest of the babies and none of the other have that!! They are all still doing good and are...
Thank you this is very helpful! And yes the one that died did have a piece of egg attached to it when I cleaned it as soon as I took it out the box. I’m assuming this is the egg tooth? The rest didn’t have that piece of egg shell still stuck to it like she did. She did have trouble getting up...
I bought this light colored EE because one of my other EEs turned out to be a roo and I didn’t have one this color. I’m sad because I think he is a roo…
The others are all still doing well. Just a little pasty butt on one or two of them but they are on apple cider water and cleaning every day. Keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Thanks for trying but she passed away. Now I’m worried about the other chicks. I’m not sure what happened. She was the smallest of the 4 but the others seems to still be doing ok. I guess I will keep an eye on the others and come back to update here if anything changes. 😔
I received 4 chicks in the mail on the 14th. Hatched the 12th. They were all healthy and fine until this afternoon I notice one seems lethargic. She’s not moving much. She did have a little pasty butt along with one other chick on the first day but I’ve been cleaning the ones that needed it...
Also, when you put horse pellets in the coop to soak up water from all the rain, after it’s all absorbed do you shovel it all out? I currently have hemp on the floor of the coop and I thought it was taking too long to dry up so I added some pellets.
I live in south Louisiana so it’s hot and occasionally very very rainy. The run has some grass left in it but it won’t be long until it’s all gone.
What do y’all use on the floor of the run? And why do you prefer it?
I have this chicken run build started. It has coated chicken wire all around. I have galvanized hardware mesh to add a few feet up the walls and a few feet of apron around the bottom all around. The chickens will only be in here during the day. Any suggestions on other things I should do to keep...