Recent content by City Farmer Jim

What age can chics be switch to pullet/hen feed. We have 2 Cream leg bars and 2 Barneveld chics we got on good Friday and were 5 weeks old then. They are BIG girls now lol 😆 😂 We are going to integrate them more than likely the week of 4th of July...

Then there was or is nothing we could have done to prevent it? The coop dynamic has already shifted. I lovingly called her the "inforcer" because she kept all the rest of the flock in line for the head hen. The new "inforcer" is asserting her dominance in no uncertain terms..

Without sounding to morbid what happens to an "older chicken" when they reach end days. Here's why I ask...we just lost a hen that is 7 ish she. We live in south Texas and she has seen a lot, from a 7 day stretch of no power and below freezing, to nearly the same the following year(both times...

I have a question for the great minds here at BYC...I have a picture of an egg likes of which I have never seen. It has been extremely hot in south Texas since April but were getting about normal amount of eggs considering the conditions BUT RECENTLY the last 45 ish days we have been getting...

If "mites" are the issue why would it be just 1-2 birds and not the whole flock...not saying it is mites as I was not able to catch the 2 "naked neck" hens this weekend..and will try tonight or tomorrow night...

It may be tomorrow night before I get into the coop and get each hen separately and get more pictures. Plus I will have my better half here to help.

I'll start by saying pictures to follow. Here's the deal..we have a mixed flock of 2 gold laced Wyandottes 2 Easter eggers 2 blue Wyandottes 2 buff orpington and a barred rock and a silver laced Wyandotte and 2 black astrolorp. We had a bullying with a buff orpington and rehomed her for...

 A question for the great minds here at BYC....if a head hen goes broody will she lose position in the pecking order. Here is the senerio...our head hen died unexpectedly and one of our soon to be hens(4/26) decided that she was the head hen(she's the biggest hen) and about 2 weeks later she...

I am not as versed with chicken anatomy as I should or could and that being said here is my question. Will a hen lay an egg given all the light, food and water requirements have been met with no more stress than a normal day has to offer. We have a hen that is 3.5 years old and from what I can...

I'm sorry for the slow reply and even more sorry for letting my head to go untreated. Our head hen has vent gleet...we have already started warm Epsom salt soaking and applying antifungal...makes me sad I didn't pay closer attention to her condition and investigate why she was acting a little off.

I'm not sure where to ask this question so I'm going to start here. This is not an emergency or a wound. We have a 3.5 year old Barred rock that is my favorite girl. I had ask about sour crop and received awesome advice and a gentle massage of her crop ended in her expelling what ever the issue...

Good afternoon/evening all, not an emergency yet BUT don't want it to. We have a 3.5 year old Orpington hen that I have seen laying down quite a bit and was finally able to get ahold of her. Without knowing chicken anatomy as well as I should..she has a dark spot in the botyom center of her foot...

WOO HOO CHANEL LIVES she is active and very actively eating..I know from the last bird that I need to do my do diligence and medicate for the sour crop until she is back to normal...yee haw...my favorite hen is A L I V E.

I'm sorry but I miss diagnosed what was/is going on with Chanelle...she has sour crop...its the second chicken to develop this malady. What am I doing wrong. I caught and checked her the Tuesday the week of Christmas and she had food in her crop. Today I caught her and the second I touched her...