Sorry to hear about your problem, but I used to have the same problem where my hens would sneak into the neighboring yards and eat their plants. I fixed this by sitting at the border of the yard each day while them foraged, and whenever they tried to walk past me I chased them away with a long...
:confused:Recently I have been noticing fewer eggs than usual in the boxes, and today only 3 out of 7 chickens laid, but when I rolled an egg over there was a hole where the yolk had been sucked out. I was wondering if it might be a predator, pest, or the chickens themselves.
D This is Lucky, she is a Specked Sussex hen and she just turned one. Her name was given to her after she was attacked by the cat twice as a chick, but survived.
This is a dumb question, but I gave a VERY energetic speckled Sussex and she has recently gotten bored of our yard, and is constantly wander into our neighbor’s yard. This is concerning because we can’t put up a fence and the neighbors have big dogs that have tried to attack the chickens before...
I want to have my Salmon Faverolle raise a new chick, but she has never gone broody, she just turned 1 but I want to know if she has to be older to go broody. Just wondering:confused:
Getting more chicks will surely cause more stress resulting in more bullying. Usually, Once the older chickens can't tell that the Americana is younger than them, they will warm yp to her. Until then, you should do more research depending on your circumstances.