Recent content by Asriix

While in the coop?? That's horrifying! It's been a few days already I think, maybe 4 days if I count the night by dog went crazy barking. So I hope it will go away soon. While I was flipping out, my sister called an animal control guy who is going to help us trap the cat. But for safety, I'm...

Today I confirmed that a Bobcat is trying to get my chickens. In broad daylight (10am), it's coming at the chickens in the chicken run. It's been scoping out the coop for 2-3 days and today was the day it actively tried to attack. I only caught a glimpse of it yesterday, barely. But today it...

That’s perfect! Thank you!

Update & Progress Log #2: The Peepers worked well! I could see that the redness on their 'peck spots' was starting to fade. Some had feathers start to grow back! Success! ...Then, about a week into having them on, it started getting noisy again. I started noticing some red spots but wasn't...

Update & Progress Log #1: Although the pine tar was working, it was really tedious. If I missed a day they'd go right back to pecking each other! It was ridiculous. So I finally got fed up and put the pinless peepers on them. Some broke before I could get them on, which sucked because I...

Okay, I’ll try 4 and see if I need to add more from there. Aha! Great suggestion. In all my searching I couldn’t find anything like what you’ve described. In fact, in my other run I think I do have things against the walls. I’m going to try this and see what I can stick in there to help. The...

Same thing happened to me. The xylophone was a total fail, I was really excited about it though! The mirrors were fun, but really only 1 chicken liked it and it got dirty so often, so fast and was pretty small so I just pulled it out. I like the tether ball idea. I’ll try it. Maybe the treats...

I knew I forgot something! I did try pinless peepers once, when they were a little younger. I could barely get them on, and then they ran around literally screaming, kicking and flapping and eventually ripped them off their noses. There was blood. It kind of messed me up. I’ll think about...

With Chickens, the problems seem never end. Here's my latest one: My chickens are pecking each others feathers out. All of them. There's only 1 or 2 hens who have no feathers pulled at all. They pull them from their necks, their heads, their tail feathers, their elbows, their backs. If they had...

I didn’t think of that, I’ll try it and see if it helps

it was thin shelled for sure. I bought some fake eggs! but since they lay all over the place... should I put them all over? They don’t peck at eggs in the nesting boxes at all. (There was 1 sitting in there Untouched that didn’t roll down) I’m giving 16% layer feed that they have free access to...

Hi, So I have 13 hens and only 4 are laying right now. The 4 are RID. Reds have been laying 1 week. 3 days ago, I went out to the coop before the door opened. When it opened there was a lot of commotion and I saw 2 or 3 of the other hens (sapphire gems) pecking at an egg. I managed to grab the...

Thanks everyone, she made a full recovery and is back with the flock!

Thank you, I’ll do that!

Yesterday, I went out to give my chickens their daily treat, when I noticed one of them had a strange looking head. Turns out she had gotten an injury (crossed paths with an escaped young rooster, but I checked her right after and there was no visible injury??) and I guess the hens have been...