Recent content by brookwoodpat

Both of my campine hens refuse to go in the coop at night. I've been pulling them out of a cedar tree (grabbing the tip of the branch and pulling it down to reach them) and putting them in a coop every night for year. My sympathies on your loss. I just lost a chickenf or the first time too (to...

I appreciate all the sympathy. It's so hard for me to believe she is really gone. White Tail did have a great life. She had an acre to wander in, all the green grass and clover, weeds and bugs she could eat. She had plenty of good treats too-- canned cat food, hot cornbread, lots of...

I found the feather spill from my missing chicken. It was just outside the fence, in a place where I have found it missing before, when it was trying to get back inside. I looked in that place last night for it, and I don't remember seeing feathers then, but it was dark,and maybe I missed it...

I agree that I am suspicious that she might be doing that. I really just had one escape artist chook, and she suddenly began leaving also every morning for a few days and I wonder if she was laying eggs in a special far away nest and now is sitting on them. I hope so anyway. Thanks for giving...

I'ave had my chickens for a year, 11 chickens that free range in my acre yard (with plenty of cover) and I have never lost one yet, but late yesterday one went missing. I wasn't too worried as I have a couple of problem chickens that sometimes will work on finding a way over or under the...

I have Red Sex links, black sex links, buff orpingtons, RIR, golden campines and silver campines. The best layers, laying huge eggs, very young, and laying all winter were the Red sex links. All the red sex links were very nice birds, great friendly personalities and the friendliest of all my...

I don't have kids, actually. But it is hard because they are used to a big acre and it's hard for me to see them upset about being cooped up in that little run. I agree with you that more days would be better. I'm just not sure I can hold out and keep them in there that long. I do know it...

I have eleven hens (four are egg laying, the other six are holding off till spring), that free range all day in my fenced acre and nine of them go into a coop at night. Two of them -- a silver campine and a golden campine, have been perching in a tree, resisting all my efforts to catch them at...

I'm not a chicken expert, but that buff doesn't look like she is old enough to lay. Her comb is tiny. I have a buff like that and she is not laying yet either. The chickens that I have that are laying are a month older, and before they began to lay, their combs got bigger and redder and their...

My 21 week old red stars have all started laying - I have 3 and have been getting 3 eggs a day for the last week - they are pretty much laying in the same spots. I have 3 RIR that are a week or two younger. Two don't have that bright red comb, but one is cherry red. I don't think any of them...

I'm hoping I found where she was sneaking out -- a small space under the deck where the fence meets a window insert. I blocked it and we'll see if that solves the problem. Every time I found her she was in the same area, and I think she was after old eggshells from a catbird nest. So for the...

My chicken was safe. I hardly got a wink of sleep and was up at dawn to find her. I have her temporarily locked up in the baby coop and yard. She's very unhappy as she is used to ranging through a fenced acre, but for now, that's where she is going to stay until I can figure out how she is...

For one of my five month old Red Star hens. They are just starting to lay. She and a friend of hers somehow discovered a way out of the yard (six foot fences) for the first time on Sunday, naturally jusst as I was due at a humane society event. I caught them and put them back inside the fence...

I have a coop for my birds, but they have free range of my acre fenced yard during the day. They have just started laying -- I got six eggs today -- I have 3 hens with bright red combs and three as old but the combs aren't so bright red, and 5 16 week old birds that probably aren't laying yet...

I have a golden and a silver campine pullet -- both are about 12 weeks old. Unlike the other fifteen chickens I have (RIR, Red Star, Black Star, Buff Orp) the silver campine is very troublesome in that she never wants to sleep in the coop. It is the silver campine that is the problem child...