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I figured so by what you were saying. Regardless of age. birds raised together tend to clique and reject most newcomers to their little flock. In the picture, the poor thing appears to be a bit malnourished. if you want to get her weight up, try to grind kitten food half and half with her...

But the 2 roosters and three new hens were raised together?

Noticed a few typeos there :)... i dispise autocorrect :(.

The picking: Usually, when a chicken is getting picked on, he or she was added to a flock after the original flock had established a pecking order. There are other instances but a new bird inserted into an old flock, almost always, the new bird gets picked on. sometimes, if the old flock is...

bobbi,Yes, i am from mississippi. Venting the coop doesnt help much. it seems to actually draw in moisture. and it gets so hot here, you will see a dog chasing a cat and both of them will be walking. On cold days here (low teens) you can carry a spoon in your hand out of a warm room out into...

but then again, our summers. we have to wait until the sun goes down before we give them water... so they dont lay hard boiled eggs {=o)

for a large breed, they are beautiful birds.... I have 7 barred rocks at the moment. 8 White leghorns, 7 brown leghorns, 6 brown/white leghorns(thanks to a sneaky rooster), 3 buff orphingtons, 5 black stars, 3 rhode island whites, 1 beautiful Rhode Island Red, one Bantam Sex Link Rooster that...

The one to the right of the buff :) shes a gal :)... as is the buff :)

Here, its not the "cold" that is so much the issue as it is the humidity. I lost 5 chickens one year due to pneumonia. cold is one thing. cold and wet is another. the heat lamp serves as a heat source as well as dehumidifier. so i based my opinion above on my environment and what has worked...

Just to offer you a little info about molting. This is a process of recovery. Hens "should" molt anually. Naturally, a hen begins to molt when the length of the days fall below 10 hours of daylight. Daylight is essential for egg production... therefore, mother nature and father time work...

lets do the math here shall we. The other chickens pick on her. She is definately stressed if this is the case. chickens pick their feathers when they are stressed. Feathers, like human hair, when removed, they grow back more pronounced... Another possibility comes to mind but i need more...

Most chickens once they are fully feathered out tend to be able to retain heat pretty well. draft free and dry are both beneficial. In colder areas, it is always a good idea to provide a heat source when temperatures fall below freezing. Another thing you can do is downsize your coop so the...

You are welcome. Another reason I do not candle very often is i have gotten old and clumsy :) haha... fewer times touching the eggs means less likely to drop one. Funny story... I have two incubators. One i have a rotator in it to turn my eggs for me (as i am old and lazy too) that is set to...

Ampho. your profile pic looks just like one of my barred rock hens.

It has been suggested that you only candle twice. It is not so much the "candling" as it is the "handling" that can cause problems. Eggs require a consistent temperature from setting, through embryotic development, right up to hatching. alot of moving around, temperature and humidity changes can...

But if Tractor Supply sold them as Production Reds.... they probably are... Production is actually a breed name... Never owned any... but have heard of them.

They look alot like my Hampshire Reds i had a couple of years ago. Got them from a local feed store.

I usually build mine out of 80 to 90 quart plastic storage boxes. I like the clear ones as they allow you to watch the chicks kinda like an aquarium :). The secret is to avoid any kind of draft and maintain a steady temp (or as steady as possible)... I drill 4 rows of 6 holes spaced about 1 1/2...

I have two separate coops. Rooster in both.... both roosters are young white leghorns... One coop i feed non medicated grower finisher (as it just has better crude protien %) that coop i incubate and brood the babies... The other coop is strictly for producing eggs. if i had another place for...

Foghorn and my three brown leghorns, Minnie, Penny, and Frida They are very dosile and lay medium eggs at the moment. Brown leghorns are beautiful hens, but the roosters are, in my opinion, the most beatuiful of all the males of all breeds out there. I have several male White Leghorns but...