I have three hens who started laying about a month ago. They began laying in a little nest they created in the coop on the floor, not in their nesting boxes. They are free range on 3+ acres and only are locked up at night, but their coop is left open for food, water and so they can lay. The egg...
We have hatched our chickens and now we have ended up with 3 roosters and 3 hens. They are now 5 months old. Of the 3 roosters there is an obvious dominate roo who is a good guardian and protector of the flock. He has been the dominate of the flock since 2weeks old. The problem is that we have...
We have 6 chicks we hatched 2 weeks ago. Last night one of the chicks started picking on one of the others. The chick went after the same chick over and over and became more aggressive over night. By this morning we knew something had to be done...the chick would corner the other and grab it by...
We had 7 of our 9 eggs hatch on day 21 (yesterday). 2 have still not hatched. They have not pipped, there is no peeping or movement at all today. Yesterday the 2 that have not hatched were moving around pecking. Do you think we lost them?? How long should we wait?