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That certainly looks similar! I've always seen frost bite start on the tips. No water in the coop and there is cross-ventilation at the roof peaks. They were out in the snow and wind for a couple of hours yesterday. They're all in the run today.

I never considered a bruise. That would have been quite a face-plant! 😬

My roo came out of the coop this morning with wide dark stripes through the middle of his comb and around the curves of his wattles. It doesn't appear to be frostbite. He has been unusually quiet today, and has spent the day on a roost in the run. He doesn't run at me, which is odd. I put...

It's a mystery - particularly when they're made by the same company. I can understand it with a different brand. I bought some Hen Up and the girls would starve before they'd eat it! 😄

I use Kalmbach 20% Flock Maker pellets or Healthy Harvest non-GMO 20% chick starter crumbles. Some of my girls don’t like pellets. 🙄 I offer oyster shell or crushed egg shell separately.

Thank you. Only place they could hide is under the coop, and we check daily. We have found eggs under there before.

Thank you. I thought that might be the case. I wasn't expecting any to go broody since they're fairly young, so I wasn't really prepared. She stayed in the flock for a while before I could separate her. She very well could have thrown off the egg lay. I'm better prepared for next time.

Hello, fellow chicken lovers! I would like to know if one broody hen can impact flock egg production? I have six hens who would lay 5-6 eggs daily. One went broody, and my collections dropped to 2-3 a day. I removed the broody hen last weekend, broke ger brood, and put her back in the flock 4...

Thank you for your thoughtful reply! Her crop is empty in the mornings. I happen to have both rice and buttermilk so I'll give it a try. I wondered what broody aftereffects there would be. This is my first flock and first broody hen. Thanks again for your insight!

I think the outlook is good!

Thanks. :) I read that a female SS chick will have chipmunk stripes from head down the back. A little boy will have a brown spot on his head and stripes on his back. No stripes on his neck. I was supposed to have two females, but when Yondu started crowing, I started researching and found that...

Pullet & cockerel at 8 weeks.

Maeve looks like my SS hen at that age. My roo Yodu (goregous man in my profile pic) had already grown a large comb and wattles and was crowing at 4 weeks (below). Nebby, my hen, is really sweet and gentle. Yondu the roo is a jerk. :D

Carrie Mae went broody a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't able to set up a Broody Jail until this past weekend, so she had been trying to sit on everyone's eggs. We pulled her out a few times a day so she would eat and drink. I was finally able to jail her Saturday evening. She has since stopped...

We have a lemon cuckoo niederrheiner who suffered a leg injury and has a damaged air sac thanks to the larger breed girls who would walk on her, and to the roo who repeatedly jumped her. She's unsteady on her feet and has breathing issues, so we brought her in. Oh, my, is she the sweetest hen...

Just popping in to share my experience with Yondu the Jerk. He was a sweet chick in the brooder and was always happy to be held and petted. Once the flock moved to the coop, he started hanging back and letting the girls have the treats I brought, and somewhere during that time, our bond was...

I will. Thank you.

Thanks. I'll get some today. I checked her this morning and her crop was full. I also followed her until she pooped. Photo attached. Otherwise, she seems to act ok.

No watery foods - see paragraph 2. Sometimes a little lettuce, some tomato pieces, cabbage, apple, bell pepper, infrequently and not all at once. They had some cherry tomatoes recently that they played football with, and a few bits of pepper. Today was grain feed in blackberry baby food. I mix...

Should I be concerned? We have noticed some splat-poops in the chicken yard. This evening when I was putting the girls to bed, Carrie Mae pooped from the roost, and after pooping, white watery poo dribbled down her fluff. The poop kinda broke up when it hit the pine shavings, but I attached the...