Recent content by Dhkoenig

Oh my gosh YES she is a walking broody! I love that term. Thanks so much for the affirmation and I will get on with the broody breaking! Thanks!

Such a crazy spring with the broodys! One of my little "cookies and cream" hens has been broody twice already this season and it was less than a month apart. One of my sweetest girls who has never been broody decided to give it a try. Luckily she was easier to break. Here is the one that has...

Thanks all - turned out she was pre-broody and then became officially broody. She is such a sweet girl that she wasn't nasty like some of my girls get when its that time of the season LOL. I have already broken her - one cool-ish breast bath and a day in the henatentery did the trick. One of...

Hi All - Usually when one of my hens is broody I get the "cluck-cluck-cluck" and the screech with the fluffed out wings etc....the whole broody ball-o-wax. One of my hens is NOT acting broody in terms of behavior, but she has been nesting on and off for 2.5 days including two overnights. I...

ok great idea thanks!

Hi All - my sweet Cookies n Cream (named Cookie - creative, I know...) tore off a toenail. We brought her inside, cleaned the wound, put antiseptic on it and put her in a hospital crate for the night. Problem is, there is blood all over the perches. What is the best method to clean blood off...

Hi All! Our dust bath consists of dirt and I have added "dust bath" (wood ash/DE product) here and there but even without that added in, our dust baths seem TOO dusty! We have an area of our coop that is 4x4 beams filled up with loose dirt so that they have a nice plush place to bathe separate...

Hi All - I am having a tougher time than usual breaking my broody hen. Usually the cool water bath does the trick but with temps in the 40s I won't do that. So....for the first time, I have to try the wire-bottom cage. Here is my question. How is that not cruel - doesn't it hurt their feet...

Hi Guys - my hen Nelly ( who is older and a leghorn who is among the hens that lay a lot and don't necessarily live as long) last night had exactly the same thing you described tho she was NOT broody - hasn't laid for a while (I think of her as an old arthritic granny) We have a camera and it...

At what age to they tend to stop laying? My three OGs have basically stopped (I think? None so far since summer) They will be 4 years old in march

One of my original hens, now about 3 1/2, sometimes does this for a period of time. I think it is at times when the drama at perch time is too much. She is a shy/flighty type and sometimes she just can't deal with the drama. She also tends to be a bit weaker than my others in general, so...

Here's a weird one.....we have a cream legbar who has always had a head twitch. We have had her now for two years and she has had it ever since she was young. She is perfectly healthy, lays daily, great coloring in her comb so she is not sick but it almost seems like she has a "tick" or like...

I am feeling SO guilty right now. I had to rehome a beautiful young roo (I guess considered a cockerel still because he is about 4.5 months old. One of my older hens was hiding from him - constantly off somewhere behind something because she was one of the ones he kept trying to mate, and...

that's not cruel to keep him just by himself for several months?