So we have less than 150 laying hens and have a good supply of eggs. In Wisconsin you need a license to sell them if only to public/neighbors, which is supposedly free but registration is required. Then if you want to sell them to the neighboring small eatery you must obtain a food processing...
So we have 28 laying hens in two different coops who seem to have developed an upper respiratory gurgle, and occasional sneezing.
They don't all have this going on, but it is difficult to sort out just which ones have it and which do not have it...and regardless, supposedely they are all...
We have had laying hens for years, and for some reason our 7 hens all decided to quit laying?
We had been picking up 4-6 eggs every day, throughout the winter and into spring. The hens are locked in a coop at night and let out year round to free range about two acres of wooded and with a...
I hope someone can help identify what our hens have, and what if anything we can do to help them. Also, what do we do for the others who are yet unaffected, but certainly have been exposed to whatever this is!?
I posted on a weak legs thread, and it was recommended to me that I post this as a...
Can anyone tell us if it is possible for a Silkie Bantam Hen to hatch a Bantam egg that may have been fertilized by a Leghorn rooster?
Has anyone ever had experience and/or success with this?
Our little Silkie Bantam Hen is broody and wants to stay on two eggs she is currently sitting on, so...
We have been collecting eggs nearly every day and sometimes within about48 hours, and are finding many severely cracked! Could this be because of the extreme cold winter temperatures? We have noticed some of the eggs, when we have gathered some of the cracked ones, that they appear to...
I have posted on here in various sections, as it appears we had a hen and now have ANOTHER HEN with a similar issue!
These are egg laying leghorn chickens, that up until now have been fairly healthy and worry free. They have been raised from day old chicks and have been eating and doing all...