They are on normal sort of mixed grain. Hardly have any treats other than what they dig up. She has had the stomach since we bought her, all three hens are laying with somewhat consistence (The black hen someitmes lays two eggs but not very often) as the are still young.
as stated in my other posts we bought some POL chickens from a bit of a buckyard breeder., we have had them for about three weeks. The youngest died last night. I was wondering if it was normal for a buff sussex to be bald around the bum with some not very nice looking feathers. I was planning...
Thank you to all the suggestions. Sadly Wanda died over night, won’t be using that breeder again, will go back to the old one who moved away. The other hens are a bit scruffy as it was a back yard breeder. You live and learn I guess.
Oof, this is old but I saw it and had to share the story of a Golden retrieve who worked at a free range chook farm. Day and night that dog wild laze around the sun watching over something like 100 birds. Sad to hear a while back on fb it passed away. Dogs are incredible
I hadn’t thought of that! I got some water down her with a seringe, but you may well be right. We are going to isolate her and dampen some food or fix her food with porridge consistency. I will keep that in mind over the next few days! Ty!
Apologies if this the wrong forum.
Recently we bought some chickens (Buff, Wyndotte, Light Sussex and Hampshire) The Hampshire I question is the youngest and was pushed around a bit (she has been timid from the start) . My father picked up on the fact that her beak was quote long so we cut it...
Warning, I get paranoid about stuff I don't understand
Just a bit of back story first.
When we had hens (before Mr.Fox and my dog came to visit) we had hay down pretty much everywherel our chicken run is made out of chicken white so plenty of ventilation and a perch cage area to be locked up...
Please tell me if this is on the wrong fourum, newbie here.
I just had a quick question, when we first built our chook run my dad put a door in made of if a steel frame thing.... I have no idea how to describe it. But when my brither went to to feed them it was always a big thing becuase the...