Recent content by chickensrun

Yes I too am watching my adorable new girl being ignored or shoved away from the food or pecked at all the time. I suppose your ideas about keeping them separate yet able to see each other for a few days and then letting one girl in with her and then slowly integrating them back in the group. it...

very sorry about losing your chickens. I just lost my beautiful golden laced wyandotte to what I think was a timber wolf, not common here but it was so much larger than a coyote. I saw him carry her away and felt so helpless. I hope you are able to keep your remaining chicks safe, it is a real...

I am really sorry for your loss and injured hen. It really is devastating to find them hurt. Sounds like coyote maybe got interrupted? I just lost one to a timber wolf and like you am afraid to let my girls roam in the yard now. We have been going out at 4pm and spending 2 hours with them so...

I am so sorry! It has been a bad week for predators here too. There is something so awful about killing harmless pets although we know the animal kingdom is all about survival. Nothing ever prepares us for that kind of loss when you've obviously done so much to protect them. Dang. Sounds like...

Really sorry about your run in with the hawk! I agree with keeping her in until she has healed more. Such a trooper to have survived the attack and that makes us more diligent in saving our girls and boys. I just lost my Golden Laced Wyandotte to a cunning timber wolf.

I lost my beautiful Golden Laced Wyandotte to a timber wolf at 8:30 am. She must have been protecting her sisters as she made a real ruckus. I saw the wolf carry her away. A very sad day! I feel positively violated. Now I'm worried to let any of my girls free range and kept them in the coop and...

My heart goes out to you. We just traded our newly morphed roo for another pullet. My neighbors would never have tolerated the noise. My roo was a gorgeous Australorp and I am sorely going to miss her/him and those beautiful big brown eyes. We traded for another Australorp girl this morning and...

Welcome! I'm a little further up the hill in Canada and also expecting rain here! You will never ever regret having your chickens! Best of luck building your personally designed coop. My dh built ours in a few days from spare fencing lumber and shingles and it's perfect for 4-6 hens. Since they...

I sure hope she improves overnight because you are making such a difficult decision. I agree with the post if she doesn't seem to be in any pain to give her a few more days. Never an easy answer on this.

I am trading my roo tomorrow ;( for a 6 month old hen and she will be my 3 other girls. Potential for problems? Should I get 2 new girls so they might be friends if the other 3 decide to be indifferent? I am not looking forward to a day without my roo, he is wonderful but too noisy for my area...

Hello Ontario! Welcome to BYC, I'm new too and really loving my girls. Remember to get cold tolerant chicks!! You get the snow on your side of Canada. lol

Hi Living on the outskirts of Vancouver BC. I'm looking forward to learning all I can as I lovingly raise my 4 chickens. Yesterday my suspicions were confirmed that my Australorp is a roo. We are doing an exchange tomorrow and I am so upset. Our neighbors wouldn't be able to tolerate the crowing...