Recent content by LolliHen

Thank you TwoCrows! The new hen is starting to scratch more and is more vocal. She even jumped up on a roost today! Making progress!

Hi. About a month ago a chicken fell off a truck on the way to the slaughterhouse. Our coop is within sight of the road leading to the processing plant; we see truckloads pass all the time but this is the first time we've actually found one of the hens in our yard. She has been quarantined for 4...

I have six hens. Five of them look very similar (leghorns) and one looks a bit different (maybe a Cochin?). The five leghorn look-alikes stay close together all the time, even sleeping together on the same top roost but the one that looks different seems shunned. She sleeps on a lower roost on...

Thanks everyone!

I'm new to chickens and need lots of help and advice! After experiencing the "empty nest" syndrome when my children grew up, I decided to dive into another nesting experience... So here I am with a million questions and six hens!