I have owned my flock for around a year but they haven't experienced winter yet but I live in Florida where it doesn't get freezing the lowest it gets is around 43 fahrenheit so not that cold is a heat lamp enough? Do they need other things? What are you guy's plans for winter?
One of my hens just got broody I have never had a broody hen and all eggs my chickens lay are not fertile should I just leave her be or is there is there a way to stop her from being broody? She is not aggressive though.
I have been looking for costumes for my chickens for cute pictures I have looked at places like Amazon or eBay but it's all those uncomfortable arms that people put on birds to make them look like dinosaurs is there any place I can buy them or even make a costume
I realized a few days ago that one of my hens ( Plymouth Rock named Socks ) wasn't moving as usual at first I thought she was sick because she hasn't been laying for a long time but then I realized one of her toes looked messed up I think she broke it and also infected it she eats and drinks and...
I bought a chicken harness a few weeks ago so I could take one of hens to places she is my only hen thats very tame when I first put the harness on her she freaked out but then got used to it but for some reason she hates the leash a lot when I put the harness on her she is calm the second I...
I really want to free range my chickens but hawks * sigh my chicken coop is located right by a nature preserve and many hawks pass by and every now and then try to get a chance at my chickens today I let out my hens and went to get some hay for my sheep and a see a hawk land very close to my...
I have been thinking about selling chicks because I have always wanted to incubate and hatch chicken eggs but I can't keep the chicks because of the space how difficult is it to sell chicks to people and what are things I need to know?
I recently got new chickens and one of them is a silkie bantam at first I introduced all my chickens outside and the all got a long great and after awhile I put them all in the same coop the all got along great except one of the silkie bantams was getting bullied badly they where ripping out...
Feel free posting pictures of your chickens when they are looking funny this is a picture of one of my bantam silkie after a bath her head was a little bald because she was being picked on but she is better now.
I own a female lunito pearl cockatiel that hates other birds I have had her for around 3 years and got her at 7 months old but she has always disliked other birds. She live for one year with another cockatiel and whenever he would get close she would hiss at him and would do warning bites he...
I got my chickens ever since they where a few weeks old but they are all still very scared and afraid of people including me unless I have treats. How do I get my chickens to easily allow me to hold them not be scared? And are chickens trained to be lap chickens or it just happens if they are...
My friend recently added 4 chickens to my coop but everytime they see a feather on the ground the eat it and I can't stop them, do they think the feathers are worms or caterpillar or they are eating them for a specific reason? Can this hurt the chickens if they keep eating them what should I do?
I have a 2 year old gold laced wyandotte she walks normal on the grong and in her coop but when I pick her up and put her on a Smooth surface or even wood that's not too smooth all her toes curl up and then she can't stand any ideas on why this is happening?