My chickens are all 8-9 moinths old so it's not molt, correct? I doesn't look like there's any broken skin, she just doesn't have any feathers there. She's an Araucana (I think) and otherwise healthy and laying about every other day.
What do you think? After thinking about it I though it might...
Despite the crappy Minnesota weather nine of my ten hens laid eggs today. Not too shabby. One of them is consistantly over achieving as well. I only have two white egg layers, a buttercup and a California white leghorn, and I get a huge double yoker a couple times a week. I think they're coming...
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Newbie chicken question. I use the deep litter method and typically rake my coop once or twice a week. Today, when I went out to rake I noticed substantially more poop beneath the roost then normal. Like a like more. Big clumps of it. The only change to my chickens diet this week was...
We brought 12 chicks home on April 6th so they'd be 8-9 weeks old now. None of the others have anything close to a red comb or wattle at this point but Lacy (Silver Laced Wyandotte) has both. She/he has always been standoffish and kind of runs the coop/rules the roost. Might she be a he? Totally...
After reading numourous threads on BYC regarding coop design and ventilation I still have questions. I'm about done with my coop but I'm trying to decide how to finish it off where the walls meet the roof. I have a ton of soffit left over from when I built my house and I'd like the coop to match...