Hi everyone! So this past week I have been taking care of my neighbors chickens while they are on a vacation, and they said that a fox keeps getting their chickens, and they have lost a lot of birds. I have been watching them since last Saturday and this chicken had been missing since I started...
I don’t know if this will help much but, my hen Sage had the same exact problem as yours, other than she didn’t have any worms 🤔. She was hunched over, closing her eyes, and she wouldn’t move, eat or drink. She looked the same as your picture you posted of her. I still don’t know what ever...
I am not sure, but even at 12 weeks old females usually still don't have hardly any comb at all. If they are only 12 weeks old I would say most likely all cockerels. Sorry, :idunnoWhat makes me say that is just because at 12 weeks old all of my pullets still had no combs or wattles. Here is a...
For a good layer, I would recommend pearl white leghorns. Ours are about a year and 4 months old and none of them have missed a single day of laying an egg. And ours seem to be very friendly, towards us, and new birds, but I don’t know if it’s just because there was 4 kids always holding them...
I have realized that! I have the chicks fenced brooder in the run that I have another food and water station on, and when a chicken goes after a young one, the young one will jump up on it, but the older hen is always too lazy to do the same. 😆
Thank you everyone! I really wish I could make like a (portal) kind of thing, but the chicks are the same size as most of the older flock now. I really think the best option is to cage up the meanies, but the thing is, I just don’t have a big enough space to keep 3 birds separate from the rest...
Yes they have been in a (look-no touch) situation for about 5 weeks and I have been having the hardest time integrating the (2, 12 week old chicks in with our 4 red stars and 3 pearl white leghorn hens that are about a year and 3 months old. Half of the flock is fine with the chicks being...
Hi everyone! I really need ideas for cluttering my chicken run! I am integrating two chicks in with my existing flock and I read that there should be clutter in the run while they are getting used to each other. Thanks everyone!
Yes! She did!! :celebratea couple days later, we went to cvs and got tums. Started giving her that, and after 5 days she layed an egg again! She is now doing great! 😊
I have been working with them for a while now and things are getting much better. Still not to the point where I would leave them unsupervised though, 🫤. I usually cage up the two bullies and then let all the others be together, and that seems great 😊. But then after a bit I will let the...