I had two hens to hatch eggs about a week apart and when the poor babies would get near the other hen not their mom that mom would peck them to death. Nerve racking. I lost two before I could keep them separate! Chickens are crazy...
The chicks (only three now - six on 9/02) have been on the ground since day one. Mama hen dropped them from the nesting box and we've put the box on the ground where they sleep in, under her, every night, and venture in the say 9 x 12 area (covered pen) every day. Not able to get back up to...
6 chicks hatched Sept. 2 first day mom and roo pecked one to death, a few days later one died, now two weeks old biggest chick dies. They just get sluggish and sit still can't move around with the others and this last one seem to have an abcess or growth on the side of its little 'chest' (don't...
One evening resting inside my small farm house I heard our banty rooster squawking and cackling furiously. I ran outside to witness a chicken hawk carrying off our banty hen. I started yelling and rushing toward the edge of the yard where the woods begin where the hawk came down with her I...
HELP! A few weeks ago our banty chicken was swept to the edge of our yard by a chicken hawk. JJ her man was squawking and cackling so I went out to check and started yelling and siking the dogs on the hawk. Finally, the hawk let henny penny go and she seemed fine, a little rattled, lost a few...