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  1. Mrs. K

    Looking for advice

    Pile some "eggs' in the nest - golf balls, sometimes that will flip the switch. If she goes broody - get the freshest chicks possible, if she doesn't, get chicks 3-4 weeks old. If there are hideouts, and escape routes, and a safety zone, chicks are quick as lightening, and a couple of them will...
  2. Mrs. K

    At the end of my rope!! help with constant noisy chicken

    Yes do get her a new place. This will help in all sorts of ways. It will stop driving you and the neighbors nuts. You will enjoy the birds you have left. Truthfully, they won't miss her, and she won't miss them. Sell her for $15-20, apply it to the feed bill. And if you get someone to go...
  3. Mrs. K

    I took in a rooster

    The real problem with roosters is you cannot use todays behavior in todays situation to predict what a rooster will do. Adding full grown adult roosters is asking for a cock fight. Maybe it will settle, maybe it will get worse and worse. I second the idea above - get 3-4 point of lay, or...
  4. Mrs. K

    Roosters are obsessed with only one hen

    purple comb almost always equals heart issues. Probably quick and painless. And while not an advocate of wishing a rooster gone that way, it does really help. Too many roosters often times cause a lot of tension in the flock. Mrs K
  5. Mrs. K

    Water glassing question

    We often think all or nothing. Set up a jar, filled half way, add a few each day. Only the perfectly clean ones. Might be you need more bedding in your run, and nests. It might be your weather. Mrs K
  6. Mrs. K

    Broody hen in late winter

    so much fun!
  7. Mrs. K

    Mean HENS!

    It might be a kind of 'mob response' - are you carrying food? Once a respected poster, said to get past the everyone runs to the gate, and gets under foot, is to not feed them right away. Check your water, look for eggs, and when it is calm again - then toss out the food. Mrs K
  8. Mrs. K

    Should I be worried?

    About the time, you completely give up hope, when you become convinced that some how you were blessed with the only non laying chickens in the country, well then, 3 weeks later - they start to lay! haha You said they are reddening up - a good sign it is generally about 4 weeks after that they...
  9. Mrs. K

    Egg with a hole?

    Sometimes a toenail will puncture an egg, and then they can give it a shake.
  10. Mrs. K

    Broken chick leg?

    With meat birds, you need to process them somewhere around 8 weeks. However you can process them much earlier than that. I have a friend who always does some fryers at 5-6 weeks. If this bird stays like this, I would butcher her/him sooner rather than later. If the health goes south - then...
  11. Mrs. K

    My recently rescued little hen - addition to the flock...how old is she?

    I too think she has not come into lay yet. Her comb and her legs look young, so less than 5-6 months. Mrs K
  12. Mrs. K

    Permanent solitary hen?

    I don't know, but it might be a long time before this one is confident enough to be with the flock. As in months. Once they get attacked, they have no confidence and almost bring it on. Chickens will be mean to anything they can get away with it. Keep her separated a much longer period. Seen...
  13. Mrs. K

    Roosters are obsessed with only one hen

    On re reading your post, what didn’t you like about having the two flocks? The two set ups? MrscK
  14. Mrs. K

    Introducing New Chickens to an Existing Flock

    Yes, it is an easy way to add chicks. My favorite way, but you do have to follow some 'rules'. First leave your hens alone. Maybe, every 3rd day, carefully lift them out of the nest, be careful, because some will steal layers eggs, and some will lay in the nest when the broody is out. So there...
  15. Mrs. K

    Roosters are obsessed with only one hen

    Chickens really do not do what is fair or what is right. And really you cannot train them once the problem starts. And really there is not much brain to change. A couple of general rules: The more roosters you have, the greater the chance of it going wrong. Sometimes you can get multiple...
  16. Mrs. K

    Hands off chicken keepers: how do you manage sick chickens

    I can handle my chickens, and when I was first starting, I had a flock that would sit on me, but I really didn't like it. I never tamed them that much again. I have culled birds, I am not afraid of them. I don't really need to handle my chickens. I don't think it is wrong or right deal. Just...
  17. Mrs. K

    Hands off chicken keepers: how do you manage sick chickens

    Well, I too am hands off. I just like to watch them. Mine find being handled very stressful, which is hard and stressful for me. So I don't. I am not going to do an internal examination. Or stick calcium tablets down their throats. I really tend to go with the idea that if you can't catch...
  18. Mrs. K

    Introducing New Chickens to an Existing Flock

    Really this depends a lot on the number and age of the new birds. Chicks are easy to add by week 3-4. Give them a lot of escapes and a safety zone, they are fast as lightening. I train them to sleep in a dog crate. Put the crate in the safety zone in the run with food and water. The chicks can...
  19. Mrs. K

    Heat Lamp & Cold Weather

    Well warm air holds more moisture? As to the OP- don’t think warm, think dry. It seems counterintuitive as we spent our childhood hearing “shut the door you are letting the cold in.” Most people(maybe not you) don’t just add heat, the close up the coop to trap the heat. That makes for damp...
  20. Mrs. K

    Quarantine logistics for several hens

    Well I started out separating mine, that was a wreck. I just let her do it her way, where she wants. I do have a coop ground level. But if I didn’t, I would just check at dark to make sure they make it in. Generally only needed a couple of times.
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