Hello everyone! One of my favorite chickens in my flock, Goldie has something wrong with her. I went out to pen up the chickens after them free ranging all day and I found Goldie laying down underneath the coop tilted on one side. She has no injuries from a predator it just seems something is...
Unfortunately today I found my first killed chicken today :( She was ripped open, breast eaten, neck feathers ripped off and feathers everywhere! There were other black feathers from another chicken that could have gotten attacked but none of them had injuries. It was just this one and they were...
I have a one year old Delaware rooster who has recently turned very agressive towards humans over the last month or so. There have been many incidents where he has came after myself and my brother and sister. The first incident was when my sister was swinging on her swing-set and my rooster ran...
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I have been noticing that my chickens run has been getting worse and worse as the poop begins to build up!! When it rains it gets all muddy and gross and my girls need fresh air so I am forced to make them walk in the gross mud/poop. I let them free range everyday at about 4 pm...
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I have one year old rooster which is my only rooster in my 18 hen flock. I have two chicks that are 5 weeks old and one is a hen and the other a rooster. I wanted to know if I should have two roosters for my new 19 hen flock or if there would be lots of fighting and competition? I...
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I need some help with my 5 week old chicks and their mother. Today when we let the two 5 week old chicks out to free range with their mother the mom had left them to be alone with me! She would come back and check on them and let them follow her around but wasnt nearly as...
hello everyone, I have 2 chicks that are about 2 weeks old that hatched from underneath my white rock broody hen. She is raising them excellently and we have had no problems. one chick is a barred rock and the other is a white rock. So I was just wondering if there was any way of telling what...
Well today is day 21 and when i went out to the coop this morning at 8:00 one chick had began pipping. And at 12:00 the chick has evidently pecked more at the opening and I actually heard a peep come from under the hen!!! I looked under her and the egg had not been hatched yet. So what I need to...
hello everyone i have a broody hen that is due to have 5 baby chicks on june 19th. I just want people to know my plan and please advise me if I should change anything about it. ok so my broody hen is sitting on 5 eggs in a milk crate style nest box. she has been sitting for about 14 days and a...
hello everyone, i have just noticed that one of my 9 month old white rock chicken has gone broody!! This is my third time dealing with a broody hen and each time before was unsuccessful. we hadnt owned a rooster before and "borrowed" fertilized eggs from the local farms. we managed to have a...
ok so heres my situation. I have a speckled sussex that is by far the smallest of my 19 bird flock. One day I noticed that she had been brutally attacked by her neck. So i seperated her and applied ointment and healing stuff. she was seperated for about a week and then just recently I put her...
can people beak clip their chickens by themselves? or should i get someone professional to do it? If i can do it by myself then that would be preferable because i dont want to pay a fortune to get it done.
one of my chickens has appeared to have been pecked brutally on her neck. she is the smallest of our 19 chicken flock and we have just introduced them together for about a week now. She is totally fine too. shes acting normal, eating, drinking, and even comes to visit when i enter the coop. What...
I just noticed today that my rooster has a bloody toe. its his middle toe right foot if that even matters. one of his scales is above the blood and all the blood is dried up. what could have happened to him???
i just noticed today that one of my 18 week old chicks had a viably large bump right where her right wing meets her breast. i picked her up and started feeling the large bump. I noticed that when i pushed on it it sunk in and then expanded back out. She is still growing some feathers in this...