Thank you for sharing your experience with me, and for the advice. I will try this in a few days when the weather improves here. She is very content where she is right now and I’ll watch her more closely for signs of illness. There was some looseness in her droppings but it seemed to clear. I...
My hen is indeed molting as you thought. But I tried to add her back to the flock twice now and she is getting chased and pecked and flew up onto my arms. I am afraid to leave her there. I am thinking perhaps to remove the main tormentor for a few days and try again - maybe adding her back at...
I am a new chicken keeper, so please help me figure out what to do here. This hen might be molting but my flock is 8 months old and it's winter so the timing is wrong, and the feathers look broken off. There are 8 hens and one rooster, and all grew up together. I removed her from the flock...