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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?

Can the mama hen and her clutch be put in a cage? I currently have her nesting box closed off with the cage.

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...

There was nothing you could do. Sorry you had to go through that.

What I ended up doing was leave some straw by the nest, about a foot or so and she started spreading it.

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...

You did the right thing. It was either a quick mercy kill by you or a painful death by starvation.

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.

I would personally give him another chance. Get him some bigger hens, he earned it.

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Try telling them the benefits of chickens, like the Eggs and possibly tell them about Meat Birds, and maybe ask if you can join a local 4-H group?

No, she hasn't been moved too much, I got them a few months ago, in late August, I believe. I do move their cage outside sometimes, when I vacuum and if it's nice out.

Alright, it seems most of the slime is gone, now it's just a little bit. She is acting sort of slow, not really wanting to eat. If she doesn't start to eat by the time I get back from feeding the other chickens I will give her warm Oatmeal with honey and a bit of sugar water.

I will keep watch on her, my mother may get Electrolytes tomorrow, as I hear those work.

I have three OEGB's, 2 hens and a rooster, and one of the hens has a clear slime coming from her mouth, it seemingly had food chunks in it, and she is acting odd, I offered her some feed and she just passed it, the other two chickens would peck at the slime, and the rooster sneezes once a day...