I have 14 hens and no rooster. Neighbors aren’t thrilled about roosters. They have a large run area with multiple feeder and waterers, and I do my best to give them enrichment options. Hopefully it’s just some seasonal changing or something.
I’ve had my flock for about 2 years and all had been good. A few weeks ago one of my hens went broody and I “broke” her, but ever since then shes completely singled out and been picking on other hen. To the point now the other hen is missing almost all her head feathers and hinds in the coop. I...
So, I have 15 hens that all get along great. 2 of my Hens recently went broody so I put them in “chicken jail” for 4-5 days. (They go broody often and this isn’t the first time at all), but this time when I let them out both of them have been attacking one of the other hens. To the point that...
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So I’m raising 11 Bresse for meat. I keep my meat birds and egg birds separate. Because they’re straight run I have 7 roosters and 4 hens. They free range in a large garden during the day and sleep in a pvc chicken tractor. They’re all 10 weeks old, and I plan to processing them around...
UPDATE: I have 2 chickens that are still declining. I’ve have them separated and noticed one has white watery poop. Idk if that helps with figuring out what’s wrong m.
-All my chickens are between 6-9 moths old
-I'm currently down to only 4 hens
-I Feed them soy free non gmo from homestead harvest. I occasionally throw some scratch out or ferminted a feed scratch mix and give it to them a few times a month.
-I have dewormed them I used a course of pour on...
They have been dewormed. I did have a worm problem a while back but I feel like I have that under control.
So I have noticed the sick birds have had a very green colors poop compared to the rest of the flock and it tends to be runny and not solid.
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I’m fairly new to chickens and the last 3 months are so I’ve been loosing some birds and can’t figure out why. Over the course of about 3 weeks they start to self isolate and seem to just slowly waist away until they get so weak I have to cull them. They all seem to still be eating and...