Recent content by robyn66

Thank you for saying that. I am always afraid of offending someone or just sounding plain stupid :) . Yes its true we dont expect an egg every day and I seriously underestimated the length of time the chickens would be stressed! I thought that if they were left alone since June it would be...

We let them free range during the day on the weekends. We keep an eye on them as much as we can. I hope the foxes dont take any more. Oh, we also have bears. We saw one of the neighbors roos in the middle of the road with its head torn off. The head was in the road so whatever killed it...

Also, I agree that we are not prepared for another rooster. The one we had came with the other babies and we had no idea until it was too late. We werent going to harm him so we tried to raise him by hand and feed him peaches but I guess that was our biggest mistake because he looked at us as...

We dont know exactly what happened to our Alpha. We know the yard was full of wild turkeys and their babies (which were about the size of the hens) so she may have gone off with them. Unfortunately I was told the turkeys would likely kill her. We also have TONS of foxes this year so that is a...

I know they aren't vending machines. I know this was a terrible shock for them all but I thought since all of this happened in June they would be settled by now. I only brought the other two in because I thought it might make them feel better to be 6 again. I would never cause them stress...

How often should I give this to them? Like one can of tuna should be enough or should I do it weekly?

The drop off almost started immediately. The Alpha Hen that disappeared a week later really made it worse. And ever since if we get one or two eggs a day from four birds we felt lucky. We are now down to one egg a day from the flock. The four girls left over seem kind of lost. Three of them...

It has been a horrible summer in New Hampshire. There have been extreme temprature flxuations. We had a month of 90+ degrees with high humidity and lots of rain then we have a couple of days in the 50's to 60's and then back to humidity

I will do my best to make this brief. We had an Americuana Rooster, who was great at his job but just flat out dangerous. After months of trying to make him behave he had to go to freezer camp. This was in June. We have four Americuana hens and 1 spotted sussex all almost 1 1/2 years old. The...

So far she isn't to be found. We have hawks and bald eagles too. One of them could have snatched her up. :(

We had the same problem with our rooster. He was very violent and would really hurt you. He also tore up the chickens backs. We tried training him and just about everything we could but he had gone after my daughters eye and I have young nephews who he could have really hurt. We (my husband)...

We had to dispatch our rooster. He was too violent toward our family and he was tearing up the other chickens. My daughters and I were heartbroken but fortunately my husband was raised with chickens so he doesn't get attached and is an expert at killing a chicken quickly and as painless as...

We have a gorgeous Americauna Rooster. He was a surprise because we ordered 6 hens. I guess we were lucky to get only one because not only did we not get our order of 6 Americana hens, we got one Spotted Sussex, an Easter Egger and two Ameraucana! Anyway, our Roo was raised like a baby. We...

I am in NH where it is freaking freezing! So hopefully we will be HAVING to transition her because she will be well! I plan on keeping her in until she is her normal crabby self! Thank you!!!!

Here is another question. I have her in my kitchen which is pretty cold. I would like to bring her in to the room with the pellet stove because it is so nice and warm. What I was concerned about is if Clucky (baby's name) comes through this, would it be bad to have kept her too warm? I dont...