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I have a sweet hen that is at the bottom of the pecking order of my flock of 5 hens and she is getting bullied to the point her butt is bleeding. As soon as I noticed I gave her a bath and applied ointment. I have been cleansing it and applying vetericyn and blue kote. I was hoping the blue kote...

Ok I was expecting bloody combs but maybe the blood froze by the time I checked them and I missed it. I have fake eggs in every box but I will try closing it off for a few days. Thanks!

This morning one of my nesting boxes looked like a crime scene. I have 3 nesting boxes open and 5 hens. 2 of them have been laying for a while and 2 just started laying. I know it was my 3 oldest fighting over this one box. One of them ended up laying on the drop board in the coop which has...

I got it at Michaels!

I had to guide some of them up the ramp at first

I made the ramp out of corrugated plastic and that finally worked. The video is on their facebook. Just set it to where its about halfway covering the treadle and then used landscape staples to attach it to the ground at front of the ramp. I had it on the 2nd level that way for a week then when...

Did you attach it with screws horizontally across the treadle? If i stand there with my foot on it I can get them to come up and eat but they are still super jumpy and don’t go on their own. So this morning I just stood there with my foot on it for 20 minutes. Then when the younger ones are...

Yes i have stood and put my foot on it to keep it open and also gently moved it up and down with my foot. But maybe i need to do a little more. I spent a couple hours in there one day just holding it down, coaxing them with feed. They have oyster shells available always. Just when it moves at...

Help!! I was excited to get to grandpa’s feeder but now I feel like it’s stressing out my hens and me! I did as instructed, kept it at level one for a week, and then moved it to Level 2. They are terrified of the movement. I tried making a ramp to it, putting a nesting pad on the treadle step...

She did it! Its so tiny and perfect 😊

Its the squatting that gets me! If I just go to pet her she instinctively and quickly squats and flattens herself out. She has always let me pet her but this is different.

Question for those familiar with Jersey Giants. I have one JG hen and I love her! She is only about 20 weeks old so I have been surprised that she is squatting when I put my palm near or on her back. She has also been going into the coop during the day and today she was sitting in the nesting...

Thank you!

2 of my 18 week old hens seem to be close to laying. They are going up into the coop during the day, staying in coop later in the morning.. This will be my first experience with laying hens. I opened 2 of my nesting boxes and have curtains and ceramic eggs, provided oyster shells separate with...