Recent content by Amyellen

This is the enclosure where i closed them up while it was raining

No, i just put them inside their enclosure instead of letting them stay out in my yard free ranging

She's not sick as far as I can tell. Yesterday they were outside with me all day while I was gardening and everyone seemed totally normal

I have 5 hens who have been together since birth and are 4 years old. This morning I noticed Tiny, kind of in the middle of the pecking order, being attacked by the top hen and one who's normally at the bottom. They were huddled around her and pecking her head. I broke them up and they...

I just took a hen to the vet to be euthanized because she had flystrike so bad. She was my best hen and leader of the flock and I am so deeply sad. I bathed her and picked the larvae off her body, fighting off nausea the whole time because it was so disgusting but I just kept thinking about how...