iOS app
Roostel
Roostel: Chicken Identifier
Field notes
- What her comb is telling you A week of watching, and what the colour keeps saying
- Why she throws herself in the dirt That flop in the corner isn't a fit — it's her keeping herself well
- When the pecking order changes What to notice when the quiet one steps forward
- What a broody hen is asking for The growl, the flat sit, and what to do when there's no rooster
- The soft-shelled egg in the straw Not a crisis. Just a note to keep an eye on
- When she starts to look ragged The autumn molt, and what it costs her
- Water before warmth in a cold snap Why the frozen drinker matters more than the coop being warm
- How a hen shows you she's too hot Beak open, wings like little tents — what she's asking for
- The hen who's gone quiet The first thing a poorly hen tells you, if you're looking
- Looking under her feathers A dusk check, gently done, tells you what the day couldn't
- The song she sings after laying That racket from the coop isn't trouble — it's news
- When the eggs slow down Six hens, two eggs, and what the basket isn't telling you
- Bringing new hens into the flock The mesh is doing more than you think
- When a hen is left on her own On the last of the flock, and what to do with the quiet
- How hens put themselves to bed The dusk shuffle, the perch order, and what lock-up actually needs to be
- What her droppings can tell you A plain look under the perch, no squeamishness
- Her first egg, small and strange The body finding its rhythm, one odd little shell at a time
- Walking the coop before the cold Not a checklist — just a slow look round with her in mind