I wanted to thank you for the mirror advice. I never understood why they would stare into our glass door when we let them out. But now I guess I get it. We got 2 more mid sized hens, and all is much better! Thanks again. And I think we will be leaving the mirror in.
We would let our 3 ladys out of their enclosed coop. 2 Brahma, 1 black star. For the last 3 years it went according to plan. A few days ago upon my routine inspection to see where they were, a fox was over 1, and another 1 was already gone. So we're down to 1 brahma by herself. We are rookies...
Thanks all for the replies. We have a store bought (apparently this is frowned upon as wife works for tsc and this in the consensus) coop that says holds up to 8. We feed them layer food mixed with some corn mainly, and mix in mealworms, scratch and little ball things occasionally. Due to us...
New to the group, and owning hens. So hello! We have had them for 9 months in New York. 6 hens, 3 cinnamon queens, 2 brahmas, 1 black star. It seemed until about 2 weeks ago they were fine with each other. The black star started to exhibit head wounds/bare skin in small patches and when I would...