Hello everyone, since I posted this... I now have chicks! I found her nest (In the woods and briars, behind a cinderblock pile) I checked on her everyday. Sunday made 21 days since she's been sitting, so yesterday I went out to see if there were any chicks and there were 4! I was so suprised! I...
I was told that when you switch, push the nipple in so that water comes out so that they can see. Put it close to where their old waterer was, they should figure it out.
She's too fast for me to follow, I see her eating and the next thing I know, she's gone. I have woods all around me and it's impossible for me to see where she is. My husband said he'd help me look for her this weekend.
I had a coon get in my coop a couple of weeks ago, he killed 2 of my hens and crushed the beak of my silver laced (I had to put her down). I opened the coop and he was sitting in the corner with a dead chicken, the 2 chickens he killed were hollowed out. He didn't touch any of my other chickens...
I shut my chickens up at night because I've had problems in the past with predators. They've always went in when it got dark, but for the past 4 nights, my naked neck hen (Her name is Turkey), she hasn't went in with the rest, I shut the coop up because I can't loose anymore chickens.
Every...