My Buff Orpington is a little over a yr old. She has always been a very social and gentle bird. UNTIL I build a second coop area in the barn. I brought in 4 chicks once feathered I put them in the adjoining coop, both flocks have one shared wood & chicken wire wall. They see each other but have...
Update my Black Australorp that was twice the size of ita flock mates is still twice the size of the rest. I think I just have a HUGE bird. He is not as lazy as he used to be he doesnt lay around as much. I am concerned that i might jave 3 roosters out of the 5 chicks.
Ive been raising chickens for 5-7 years now and this year I've had a first. Not sure if I should be concerned or not. So I got four day old chicks from the farm store, mow two weeks old. 2 Black Australorps a Isa Brown and a silver laced wyandotte. The issue is one of the Australorps is...
my 5 month old buff orpinton out of the blue started attacking my dogs. The chickens grew up with the dogs from day one, they have always got along. The birds free range daily the dogs are NEVER out without supervision, never any kind of dog aggression. I've watched one bird she started by...
Hi I'm Brandy fairly new to chickens, I got my flock as day old chicks about a year ago. Right now I have 7, 2 black australorps, 1 buff orpington, 4 wyandottes. I get a magazine that I seen the ad for backyardchickens.com and I was googling some questions I had and BYC.com kept coming up. I...
She was a black australorp a little over a year old. She never acted sick or odd. I had to go out of town over night the ladies were set up for the day with food and water and free access to the run (nothing out of the ordinary). When I got home she was dead in the coop, the other ladies seem...