Recent content by nthasama

The chicks are actually going to get a separate coop. It was the compromise my husband and I came to because I wanted some chickens that were tame and that my kids could interact with, but my husband wanted chickens as livestock that we can eat. So we are having two different flocks in...

That is a great idea, thank you. I don't have anything like that set up at the moment, but I think I could build something for her. I want to build a new coop sometime soon and I want to have a section that can be shut off to use as a nursery. In the mean time I might just have to use some...

Hi everyone. I have already posted on the emergencies/diseases/injuries and cures forum and gotten a lot of help, but I thought I would post here to introduce myself as well. Last month we moved and took over a small piece of land (about an acre) that my in-laws had been living on. They had...

Great news! When I went to check on her this morning she was standing! She still seems less energetic than the chickens usually are, but it is an improvement. I think she may have been kept away from the water and food. Looking at her she is skinnier than the other chickens. Would putting a...

She doesn't do anything when I pick her up. At first she tried to move away when I came close, but then she gave up on that. I picked her up and she just kind of laid there. I did try and look her over for injuries and didn't see anything, but I will look closer in the morning. The hen is...

So the chickens actually haven't been moved. It is a little complicated, but basically my inlaws were living in a house that me and my husband own while we were out of state. Last month we moved in and they moved out. Since I wanted to get some chickens anyways they left their chickens for me...

I have a rooster and some hens that I just got a few weeks ago fully grown from my inlaws, so I am really new to this. This morning when I was out caring for them they all seemed fine. This afternoon I was out there checking on them and one of them was sitting on the ground kind of funny. She...