Thank you for your reply! The outdoor cage(probably 3ft x 3ft) is in an area where the chickens from the run can see her. I have some free roaming chickens that I haven’t integrated yet with the flock that visit her (outside the cage) daily and seem fine with her. She does seem to have some...
Picture of her for reference. All her wing feathers had broken off from her constantly trying to steady herself and now they are growing back too. She seems stronger every day.
At the beginning of July, I found one of my hens in the mud, getting mated by the rooster. She wasn’t able to get up afterwards. I’m pretty sure she was sick and not having this issue because of the rooster. Her comb was very swollen and there was a large black scab on it. I took her out of the...
Thank you for the welcome and for your response! Hopefully all will be hens, but I can handle another rooster in my flock, so I’m not too worried. Just a bit curious what these guys will be. They are all very friendly as they were raised by a classroom of 4th graders for the first couple weeks...
I have had chickens for several years now. All of them have been hand raised with a handful of additions every year. This year, on top of my normal purchase from the feed store, my son took home three chicks his class hatched in an incubator. I’m hoping they are all hens, but I’m not positive at...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.