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My frizzle hen's head/neck is bald. She has a bald spot on her wing and her tale feathers are pretty much all gone. I can't figure out why! I haven't witnessed any of the other chickens picking on her and I don't believe she's doing it to herself. Today I went out to check on her and she's just...

Oh thank goodness! I've been really worried and stressing over it. That makes me feel a lot better. Thank you!

We had a surprise chick hatch yesterday morning in our bantam coop. So far we've been allowing our two broody cochin hens to raise it. Will the chick know to come out from under the mama to eat and drink? I put food and water in there with them and have been closing the other full grown hens and...

Oh, this is such good news! We'll try it out then. We don't have any turkeys of RIRs so we're good there. Our local feed store is getting new chicks tomorrow so we may get one more to be raised with this little one. Oh wow, that's wonderful to hear! I can relax a little lol. Thank you so much...

Really? It'll be okay in there? Ugh, I really hope so! So far both cochin mamas are being SUPER sweet and protective of it. We bought the baby chick food to keep inside the coop near them with some water. We live in Ramona, CA, it's been in the 60's during the day and 40's at night. The mamas...

My husband and I collected (stole) eggs yesterday from our bantam coop. We currently have two broody bantam cochins and none of our hens in this coop are laying in their nesting boxes, they're laying in the furthest back corner of the coop (most difficult spot for us to collect). Well yesterday...

He's 3.5 months old. Immature? That sounds about right lol. What are you supposed to do then if you wanted to keep them?? Raise them seperately until they're older and reintroduce them? UPDATE: I separated both problem roos from the flock (while waiting to find new homes for them), in hopes...

Oh wow!! This sounds exactly like my situation with Franklin! He's SO abusive to her, but even when she submits, he doesn't even try to mount her. He just likes ripping out her feathers and dragging her by the neck, its terrible!!! I didn't even think that he could dislike her and that's why he...

YES!! Oh my goodness, I've seen them grab them by their neck feathers, rip feathers out etc. It's BRUTAL! We don't need to keep them. We just raised them so we had gotten attached, but I can't stand all the bulling. It isn't fair to our girls. I guess I'm just slightly surprised by this kind of...

I have 2 roosters that seem to be causing a lot of anxiety for 2 of my hens. One hen in particular has been hiding out in the coop for the passed week now. Even for TREAT TIME! I've tried picking her up and bringing her out into the run but if our rooster, Chowder, even looks in her direction...

We have this mystery silkie named Darth (I always guessed it was a boy), but my husband and I are starting to wonder. He hasn't started crowing, no wattles (STILL), no red tint to his comb, and I haven't seen him mate any of the girls yet. His brother Chowder has/has done all of these things...

Will do! Thank you for your help

Awe, poor guy. I bet they're fun little dudes! I just LOVE our D'Uccle roos That is so great to hear! We bought a total of 22 chicks all a day old and we ended up with SO many roos. We're down to a total of 16 chickens now but 6 of them are roosters so we'll still be rehoming a few. I was...

Please read my response to OldHenLikesDogs, I'd love your opinion Hahaha, THANKS! Aren't they just so fun to watch!?

Thanks so much for your response! I kinda love your idea of moving 2 buddy bantam roos to the big girl coop because we actually have 2 (17 week old) D'Uccle roosters that have grown up together! They spare each other sometimes in the mornings but they're ALWAYS hanging out together. My only...

Each of our coops is only large enough for 7 standard size chickens. We planned on keeping the bantams separate because we have lots of different breeds like polish, silkies, and a frizzle that the big girls aren't used to and may pick on. 7 of the 10 bantams are still pretty little (10 weeks)...

My husband and I currently have 2 flocks in 2 separate (neighboring) coops. Five standard size 4 month old hens with one 4 month old RIR rooster. In the other coop, we have 2 - 3 month old bantams (5 hens and 5 roos). I know we have way too many bantam roos, we plan to rehome some. However, I'm...

Is it bad if I keep them all together? I really don't have a place to keep the roos separated

Hello I have 2 separate coops (1 standard, 1 bantam) right next to each other. All of my chickens are between the ages of 4 months and 2 months (not at egg laying age yet). I have 1 standard size RIR roo and 2 bantam D'Uccle roos. Lately I've been noticing EVERY MORNING and often times...

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