I have chicks that are about 9-10 weeks old in a temporary outdoor coup I built alongside the one with the fullsize chickens in it.. I got up this morning to find 3 of them dead and a 4th one laying on the ground breathing heavily.
I am unsure as to the cause fully, but yesterday night we...
Thank you for all your advice, I will remember this for the future but after close inspection and reviewing a ton of pics off of the internet I have determined that I was miss informed by the prior owners and they are all Hens, very aggressive hens. Today they attacked a Wyandott so bad she was...
I would like to keep one to have the future option to raise chicks. I will agree though that the roosters do scare me around the kids since soon they will be walking and want to interact with the chickens.
It looks like it is time to snuff the rooster.... Hopefully the surviving rooster will...
Thank you for all your advice. I have checked the chickens and there appears to be no sign of mites or lice. One of the chickens looks like it has been abused more than the others. She appears to be skiddish, hanging out underneth the hanging food dish and running. I also noticed the less...
I was wondering if somebody could give me advice on what to do. A freind gave me 6 chickens that are slightly over a year old, up untill the day they were given to us they actually thought they had 6 hens due to them getting about 5 eggs a day. All the chickens appeard to be getting allong...