The cage is the same size as the nesting box, bout the size of a cage you see at the fair.
There is a space between the bottom of the cage and the part where you put in a box to catch poop, is that alright or is it too drafty?
Two broody hens are fighting over a clitch of eggs, the invading hen will push the mama off the nest and lay. Should I put invader in a xage? Or the mama to protect her eggs from the other hen and aggressive rooster?
This morning I went out to feed the chickens and check on my broody hens eggs. One egg was completely missing, no shell. There was a big pile of dark feces where the egg was and later inspecting the area I found a tiny bit of yolk. After searching everywhere I found nothing. The rooster has...
Oh yeah, my broody hen left the nest once to eat and the Buff orpington tried to take over the nest. She was smart enough to back off when momma came over.
She has spent three weeks on this single nest, I took her eggs from her the first two weeks and on the third week I had been gone for most of the week, my brother and grandmother though something was wrong with her because she wouldn't move, so they didn't take her eggs that week. I decided that...
So I have a hen that has laid three eggs, I want to hatch these three eggs under her but she has laid a fourth egg, can I remove this egg? Or will that send her into a berserk mode and lose the other eggs?
Also, what do I need to know and do for when the eggs hatch? Will they eat Layer food...
Title says it all. I'm letting a hen hatch three eggs since no one collected them the past week while I was showing at the fair. If the eggs are fertile they will be polish/ not sure what the hen is, she is black with a tiny barely a bump size comb. I want to clean the coop (Or at least the egg...
I'm soon going to buy a few Mille Fleur chicks, having read about them I learned that the roosters are pretty aggressive, plus I already have a small rooster(Old English Game Bantam) and he probably wouldn't like a big fat rooster attacking him.
So, is there any way to tell if a young chicken...
Check out laws on killing them, it should be fine, as they are technically a pest right now.
If it's legal, start a war. Traps, BB Guns, letting your cats hunt.