They just get treats once a day. Will make sure they get lots of protein. Thanks for the confirmation about the heat, but maybe it is just time. This will be their 2nd adult molt.
Greetings from East Texas where we are now in the 18th day of triple digit temps. Today and yesterday 104 and will go up over the weekend.
Our poor hens are so hot, and it seems the extreme heat is forcing them to molt as the feathers are everywhere. We haven't gotten an egg for 5 days now...
I have had two that look kind of like that too! I wondered if they got frozen in our last freeze... next one I see I will post a picture because I would like to know too.
We live in East Texas. The days are getting longer and warmer. I don't know the dimensions of the run (it is big and we let them out a lot) the coop is 4X8 and has good ventilation. We now have 13 chickens. We are wondering if it could be bad genetics since we got them from a huge mail...
I am not sure what is happening. We have had two deaths in two weeks in two chickens that seemed perfectly healthy. The first one, a buff Orpington died sometime in the mornng after being let out and after laying an egg. I didn't really examine her but I know that she had something going on...
One of my smallest Barred Rocks, I call her Pecky Face, because that is what she is. When she wants my attention she pecks my legs or my toenails.
She has always been very social,and vocal, the first to come running up to any of us that go outside and letting us pick her up.
It looks like...
My husband and I have had our chickens for about 8 months. We have more than we planned. He wanted to get 12, but then read that 2-3 could die during shipping so he added 3 more to the order. Then when we got them, we found they had added three more to "guarentee the shipping"! So we started...