Recent content by ArcticChickens

So true! Loved the article!

Hei hei everyone, thank you so much for your warm words of welcome! It's a really special community indeed! (Incidentally, the week I finally joined BYC was the worst week for the chooks since I started the whole flock. First, one of my young roosters died ((we suspect some congenital issues...

So sorry about your hen! I have just come back from tending to one of my own hens that was attacked by a hawk two days ago and now has a similar wound in the same location. In the beginning she was doing very poorly, loosing her balance and refusing to feed or drink. To be honest, I didn't think...

Hei, my name is Katrin and my family and I live in northern Norway. We moved here two years ago and during our first summer built a (very well insulated) coop and got our first flock of chickens. At the moment we have our four very dignified Leghorn ladies and a lively group of ten Sussex hens...

Hi nchls school, thanks for your advice! No, I know, I try to raise the roosters for meat (very mixed feelings about that...) but we can't slaughter them at the moment and they get along well for now. I will have to use the crate method anyway - it is unusually icy here at the moment and the...

Thank you for your kind advice! That is a very good point! First time raising roosters here, zero experience, so I haven't thought about that... I have a crate I used for the broody hen inside the main coop (for the same reason) so that could work! Unfortunately, we don't have access to...

Thank you for your advice! I will separate him from the rest of the flock and see how his condition develops. He was perking up a bit but now keeps himself separate from the others so I'm guessing he is not feeling too well.

We have a flock of 14 birds (Leghorn and Sussex), with seven Sussex pullets and young roosters hatched in mid-July. Two of the chicks were hatched in the incubator; unfortunately I can't say for certain if this rooster was one of them. Until now, most of the young birds have developed very well...