Foxy, an almost 2 year old hen, tidbit twice today. This afternoon, she even did a rooster dance for meimei, with wing drop 🤣
She is laying eggs and no crowing. Anybody else seen this? She has always been a tomboy...
Foxy is a very good and hyper chicken.
Pretty birds!
We have a hen (almost 3 years old) started molting after the sub-freezing week. She last molted in June/July 2023. I wonder if the cold triggered it. It appears to be a light molt so far.
Our youngsters (1y8m) laid through the sub-freezing week and are still going strong. For...
Shad, so happy to see you posting about them.
A sequence of pictures of Light
Light in the middle of laying her egg
Light laid her egg!
Turning her egg around
Taking a moment and being cute.
I have three ISA browns, all are 2 year and 8 months old. Here are their situations:
-- Honey had her first molt this August. She had life-threatening infection about two month ago from egg laying issue. We did not know if she was going to make it but she bounced back after being on Baytril and...
I have been ripping apart weed block fabric in my yard, put down by my previous owner. 😫 I hate this stuff. A nice layer of soil has been built up on the fabric where weeds are growing anyway ... so it takes a lot of work to take it out.
I am not fond of the traditional American way of home...
Meimei is doing well with an empty crop in the morning (not quite empty yesterday morning). She is also eating pretty regularly.
However, during her time being sick, she got bullied by others, especially Foxy, who is right below her. Meimei has been standing/sitting at the top of the coop to...
Update on Meimei
She ate her scrambled egg yesterday. She is doing even better today, and is pecking and scratching. No more squishy crop. It feels solid and normal. Hope it will be emptied tomorrow morning.
Happy birthday Nougat, Cannelle, and Blanche! Big accomplishment for you and your servants.
My husband is so deeply in love with Light (an Isa Brown type breed) that I think sometimes he loves her more than he loves me. I am not kidding. He often says that he is going to be really really sad...
Thank you so much for sharing your experience so thoroughly.
I have read the article by twocrow and also the one by azygous, both are very helpful. Unfortunately we already dealt with one sour crop case (this June) and one impacted crop case (June+July). For the impacted crop, it was persistent...
Amen. Assange is a hero. It breaks my heart to see how he's treated.
Tax. Meimei is in all three pictures. She is sick today though, maybe suffering sour crop from molting. Will assess tomorrow morning.