Recent content by Georgeschicks

hi! one of my chickens was limping this morning and after examination we saw a little blood on her leg. it doesn’t seem to be injured on the outside enough for her to be limping so much. is there another problem?

thank you! we will definitely consider that if there are any more break ins.

@Bear1978 Our coop/run setup is a little complicated right now because we are integrating four week old chicks. we originally only had the large green wire but found that baby chicks could stick their heads through (but not their bodies) so we temporarily added some hardware cloth. the green...

we have had chickens for three years and recently got new chicks. we lost two chickens last night, the first ones we have ever lost during our time keeping chickens. we found one chicken dead in the middle of the run and one is missing. there are digging marks around the run but none were deep...

thanks!

Thank you! We are starting them on corid now.

hi! yesterday we got five baby chicks and they are between 1 and 5 days old we think. all of them have been acting normally with good poops etc but one of the chicks (a silver wyandotte) has been inactive and acting a little funny. she will move a little with her eyes closed and stops for...

Thanks! I'm glad to know that others have tried outdoor brooding.

Thanks! I really appreciate your help.

Thanks so much this is super helpful!

Hi! I am getting some more chicks next month and I would like to brood them outside to hopefully stop integration problems. I live in Maryland and in June our temperatures rarely get below 60. I have seen heating pads and caves made for people to brood chicks outside, but this has been in the...

Hi. We just lost our first chicken. 🥺 We now have three hens left. two easter eggers and a delaware. they are all three years old and they were raised together. we have enough room in our coop/run for eight birds and we were hoping to get more. we have tried to add birds in the past but we...

Thank so much! I still learn things every day as a chicken owner and I really appreciate the help.

Hi! I have four gorgeous chickens normally who turned two this summer. They *kinda* molted last year in mid november. I live in Maryland and this year all my chickens started molting at the end of september. they look terrible right now- here is a pic of one from a few days ago. she has lost...

Hi! It’s been about two months. She actually stopped laying for two or three weeks and when it kicked back up two months ago her egg shells have been thin. my chickens don’t free range and i feed vegetable scraps pretty regularly. there is calcium in her feed which i know she is eating.