Recent content by queenoftheroost

It is not my young rooster engaging in battle, it is my big guy "Roofus" All 3 roosters are people and hen friendly, just my big rooster and the neighbor rooster are not getting along, do you think they will just find their balance/

I have a neighbor that free ranges his flock, he has 1 rooster and about 12 hens. I have 2 roosters in my flock, both get along well, 1 was a chick that hatched from my hen last summer. My older rooster was rehomed to me by my neighbor last year because he was being picked on by his rooster. My...

Thank you, I will try them out.

I seem to have the same problem. My hen must have laid some shell less egg because it was dripping icicle from the roosting bar and also frozen to her butt. I took her inside soaked her butt and blow dried her because I live in upstate NY and it has been really cold here.She has never laid an...

I have one laying hen that lays in the nest box every day. I have another hen that I adopted who hasn't laid all winter and a young pullet 19 weeks. This morning when I checked the coop I had the nest box egg and some yellow goop under the roost as well as dripping from the roost. It appears to...

My Rooster is Roofus, my hens are Mama, Patsy, Princess and Nugget.

I have had the exact conversation with someone at work. Same reaction, for some reason they believe the eggs in a carton to be so removed from the chicken. Well, you can't fix stupid.

One of my neighbor's chickens hatched 2 chicks in my perennial garden...I left them undisturbed for a few days. They would venture out a bit and scratch around. I was worried about predators, we have all kinds out here in the country.At night she would crouch down and sit silently on her chicks...

Thanks for all the input. I will post a picture when I am done.

I have a hen and 2 young chicks in my new coop and I need to fence a run for them before I let them out. I have 6' high 14 guage welded wire fencing material and I have hardware cloth that I would like to attach to the bottom of the fencing. I have read suggestions about burying it at least a...

O and Mama is a great protector,flies st anything near the chicks,dog cat, other hens.

Thank you everyone. I do have chick starter food but I wasn't sure the hen could eat that. They are the only chickens in the coop right now. I am confining them as suggested, I put some live crickets in today and they are happily chasing them around. I figured it would relieve boredom since they...

I am new to raising chickens and I can use some advice. A neighbor set up a coop last spring and had a huge flock of hens and roos that he raised from chicks. He also had 5 ducks part of his flock..They were completely free range returning to the coop at night. We live in the country with many...