Recent content by Silkiechickens10

Her legs seemed paralyzed, when I said frozen I was thinking cold to the touch, but when I set her on the roost, she didnt grip it or move her toes much, but she has been in the heated garage and her feet are warm now. Patty is a year and a half old. When she was just a pullet she did become...

I have a twelve chicken flock. My buff orpington, Patty was not in the roost the other night when I went to close the coop door. We had recently got a new lighting setup for my coop, and I figured it just needed to be adjusted and it was too dark for her to want to jump onto a roost. So I picked...

Okay, thank you so much!

It is pretty solid. I am going to squeeze it out. Then I'll clean it out, would you continue to clean it daily or should I scab it over with lotion?

Thank you! That is accually a great point. We have a large, walk in coop the size of a back yard shed. Our chickens have been roosting up in the ceiling but we recently walked that off and installed new roosts, wich all of the hens can get up on, except for our roo. He lays on the ground until I...

I've had chickens for almost a year and a half. I was cuddling my bantam silkie rooster last night when I noticed the base of his breast bone looked irritated. I assumed it was from mating. We have 11 hens and this one roo, wich I know is too many hens for just one rooster, but we hatched chicks...

Thank you! I will do that. My other broody hen has done some pecking at the chicks and they will peep, but nothing compared to my other broody, should I seperate her too or just keep a close eye?

I have two broody hens who's eggs have just started to hatch, this morning they were all packing around, the chicks are 0-4 days old. I went to check on them around 20min later and one of the mother hens had (this is graphic) pecked the chicks scalp until its bleeding. It's obvious it wasnt...

Thank you! This morning I gave her a warm egg from one of the other boxes, and she pushed it under her! I think I might let her hatch us some chicks!

Thank you! I was a little concerned, because this is my first broody hen and shes only on one egg!

I got my first flock of chickens last may, so they are all laying and almost a year old. I have eleven hens and one rooster, that we decided to keep. A few days ago I noticed Stormy (my gray cochin hen) sitting in a nesting box as I was closing their coop for the night. I found this odd because...