Recent content by Hammerj

I have 7 hens, 4 boxes. 5 hens use one box, 2 hens use another. Two boxes have never had eggs in them. I have two that lay at the same time in the same box every day! I guess they are best buds.

I definitely sit in front of my coop as often as I can and watch my girls and roo. I teach middle school and have been amazed by seeing the same behaviors in the chickens as I see with adolescents at school! Bullying will always be an issue I am afraid, it's nature. I have a lawn chair under...

Thank you! I am looking into crate training...never had this issue before so I am not up to speed. We have lots of chewies and she loves them, but they don't deter the chewing on other things. She is at the vet today being spayed so I have a few days to get a plan. She is such a good dog...

Does anyone have advice how to get the pup to stop chewing absolutely everything she comes in contact with....including our house?? She is a beautiful, sweet 6 mo. old pyrenese. Lately she has started chewing on absolutely anything she can reach, and some things I'm not sure how she got to...

On school days, my girls get the eggs when they get home: Get egg basket, open the door to let the chickens out to roam for a bit, collect the eggs, which lately have been 7 eggs for 7 hens. Bring the eggs in and wash them in warm water and egg wash (natural enzyme formula). Rinse, dry and...

cabbage scraps, apple slices and meal worms.....yum!

I'm sorry....I was really hoping they would recover.

lol, I certainly understand the husband issue. I worked on mine for over a year to convince him we "needed" chickens. Building the coop wasn't free and he did complain about how much money we spent on them at first. Now he loves the eggs and likes watching them outside. He wasn't thrilled...

I had the same situation in July. My dog pulled all the tail feathers out of one of my hens, meat and skin came with them. Her hiney was a mess! I kept her wound clean and sprayed with iodine and Blu-Kote. I kept her in the house in a clean cage for about 10 days until the wound was dry and...

We got our first egg 2 weeks ago today and today we started getting 2 eggs! 2 out of 11 are laying now. RIR are 20 weeks, 2 days old.

Lucy (the injured chicken) is still living in the cage, in the kitchen, but is doing MUCH better. A really big scab fell off, or she pulled it off, today and the wound looks really healthy. It is pink and appears much more normal looking. She gets supervised visits with the rest of the flock...

I got tired of waiting on my husband to build mine, so I went out and started building it myself. He eventually felt bad after everyone was giving him a hard time and helped me with the walls and roof.

Thank you for your responses! I was able to pick up some of the items you mentioned this afternoon. We have moved her to a cage that we can keep her in and keep her close to the other chickens yet stay clean and safe from pecking. She loved the meal worms! Unless she develops an infection, I...

One of our hens was attacked last Wednesday morning by a dog. Her tail feathers were pulled out and it appears some flesh is missing from her hiney. It looked like raw hamburger We sprayed the wound area with iodine and put her in a rubbermaid tub with newspaper in the house to keep her in...