Recent content by KrystleJones

Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it. I don't have another run or coop to keep the chicks separate from the hen, nor can I afford to purchase or build one. I may just have to keep her out in our yard until she's ready to roost at night, which has worked fine so far, but then the chicks...

I have a hen that I've raised from a tiny chick that is several years old, her friend died a couple weeks ago so we bought a couple more chicks (3 weeks old) hoping she'd be sweet to them since she's been very lonely. She seemed the broody type as I'd found her sitting on her eggs often. But...

She looked normal, no blood or anything out of the ordinary, and I checked to see if she was egg bound nothing there. They hadn't been laying much at all the last month due to the heat here in Houston. I cleaned the coup very thoroughly, and while Nutmeg was out of the coup she was digging...

My poor leghorn Brie passed this weekend, she had been acting completely normal until Saturday when she and Nutmeg stayed in the coup. I had gone out to feed them and thought they weren't ready to come out before leaving, but when I came back from work they were both still in there and hadn't...

Nutmeg and Brie my Leghorns