Recent content by mrdruids

sweet thanks

i keep a flock of 5 hens. a few months ago i introduced 2 of them and the normal initiation pecks and shunning only lasted about 5 days... accept for 1 of them. she has been terrorizing these 2 for months. when she gets near them they run away, is this normal? luckily she allows them to sleep in...

good news! i think.... looks like its a leg injury thats making her walk funny, she seems to be favoring her right leg and mom said the left looks swollen i read that with leg injuries its best to just leave them alone and let them work themselves out. i hope this is the case. it was heart...

her poop is white and brown i think thats normal, but when she pooped it looked like she lost her balance and had to take a few steps back

it looks like shes trying to poop, do chickens get constipated?

ill see if i can catch her pooping today, she wont let me get close enough to check her for mites :(

about 3 weeks ago one of my chickens started acting funny, she would just sit there with her head tucked in and was very lazy, then she started having trouble walking like she was drunk or didnt have the strength. she died about 5 days after she started looking lazy. now another of my girls is...

we were using a hanging feeder, first we used regular feed but its really expensive so we switched to the pellets but the girls like to knock the food onto the ground and kick it around and pellets started turning into muddy clay stuff in the rain, so we switched back to regular feed and now i...

well at least the eggs dont crack so bad that the stuff comes out, just gotta be gentle with them

one of my girls kept disappearing and we thought the worst each time, turned out she was building up a clutch of eggs hidden on the side of the house getting ready to brood. they can drive you nuts!

I have a black star hen, shes a really big girl. Her butt is so big that she has a white stripe under it from when she poops. also whenever she lays an egg its cracked and smooshed in on one end. So im wondering does she have an abnormaly high vent or does she have an abnormaly big butt? and...

i know large egg farms do this to increase egg output but it seems kind of rude, is this bad for chickens? can they even get any sleep with the lights on 24/7?

Quote: X 2 Molting changes appearance and attitude of the chickens. Some hens become more aggressive, most don't want to be messed with. The 'pecking order' is a fluid, ongoing, changing social structure with those on the bottom always wishing to improve their position. And for the ones...

Quote: hey thanks, i might try this out. they're soooooo expensive at petco, 8$ for 50

My 2 bantam brahmas have always been at the top of the pecking order but right beneath them it went snicklefritz - bantam dutch, fiddle faddle - leghorn, then poppycock - black star. fiddle faddle and poppycock are younger and were introduced to the brood late and were of course at the bottom...