Recent content by Screebert

Our hen had a prolapsed egg chute, for an unknown length of time. She became very ill over the past few days, and we had to put her down yesterday. She had a strange hump on her lower back for a few months, and I am wondering whether that was a symptom of something? Like, an egg stuck there...

I am wondering.... this hen had a hump on her lower back for the last few months of her life. We didn't know what it was about, but she seemed to be living a normal life, so we weren't too concerned about the lump on her back. Could she have been egg bound for months, and been acting normally...

We thought she was getting better, but then she got a lot sicker. By sunset, she seemed to be dying, so we culled her. Thank you for all your responses.

My Mom's 5 year old hen smells like death and looks like she's dying. First thing we noticed: she is lethargic, and has a rotten smelling behind. My Mom asked me to grab her from the coop and take her indoors. She did not put up a struggle at all. I put her in a tub of warm water, and tried...

Hi! I don't post here often, but I would like to remind fellow chicken lovers that belief in God is not a pre-requisite to being a good keeper of chickens, nor is Christianity universal among chicken-keepers. I am an agnostic, which means, for me, that I do believe in God, but that no...

I tried to post a photo, but it didn't work in the preview. I don't have photobucket. How do you post a photo from the hard drive, on this site?

There are so many. Which one to choose? LOL. I'll start with a couple of movies that I thought were dreadful, yet others liked: "Hope Floats", "Elizabethtown", "Independence Day". "The Anchorman" was only so-so. The most recent film that I hated was an Australian film, "Alexandra's...

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I assumed they were chickens that may have been abandoned on the railroad tracks! I got out, and called my standard call, "chicken!" I walked closer, and they weren't afraid of me at all. Then I saw they had red, featherless heads & necks. One of them stretched out his/her giant wingspan, and...

When they're just hatched, the size and shape of the dot on their heads indicates male or female. But it's probably too late for that at 3 weeks. The one that stands a little taller than the others, does it also have sturdier legs, especially the "drumsticks"? Also look for more red on the...

Thanks for the laugh!

Screebert is the barred rock rooster. The barred rock hens are "The Fat Girls". There's also Creamsicle (Creamy for short), The Nanny, Oven Baby, Baby-Baby, Blackbeard, and a couple that don't have names.

Toffee and unnamed look like definite boys. Lucy looks like a girl. Reese has long legs like a boy. Unnamed #6 looks like a girl.

I think they will appreciate some shade, definitely.

We had a brown turkey hen who was so sweet, and followed you around like a dog.