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perhaps, still would be confused about the somewhat “bloody” feathers around a lone tree, I also looked around the area where the last pile of feathers were left and all I saw was a few nests(most likely from crows) and a large tree burrow
today morning, at around 5:30AM , I started to see that a hen was very eager to go outside and begin her day, as I let the hen out, almost instantly I hear a the hen make a brief sound of discomfort, I quickly look out the window and.. the hen’s gone and there’s a pile of feathers left behind...
a day ago my broody hen tried to hatch a batch of eggs, unfortunately only one egg hatched successfully, although today morning I saw that the hen moved into another hen’s nesting box what should I do, (the nesting box she moved to has 14 fertile eggs of which I would be happy if she hatched...
Sadly only one chick was born successfully out of a dozen eggs, we are looking to purchase baby chicks and introduce them to the broody hen to make company for the future generation of chickens (we do not have time for any online ordered chicks to arrive unfortunately we need our single chicken...
Due to him constantly grooming and that I suspect he had contact with another chicken flock or animal (he went missing for an entire day and an entire night)
As of now I’ve checked the skin behind his injured leg and found it to be extremely red(along with his rear skin) could it be that mites are causing this? (All the skin below his feathers are extremely red) and he keeps gromming himself constantly
My rooster has escaped twice from my property, the first time he escaped we found him inside the neighbors yard with the neighbor’s chicken, although this time I found him in a ditch besides the road nearby my house, when I found him he was limping (and still is) currently The rooster is not...