I have an almost 3 year old easter egger hen that needs a new home (non-culling). She is laying up to 4 green eggs a week (almost every other day). She's been fed organic feed and has had free roam of the back yard. I don't spend enough time in the yard any more, so she deserves a new home...
I am hoping to find a new family home for 5 hens, all around 2 years old . I do not have enough time to take good care of them any more, so would like to find another chicken lover who is willing to adopt and love them as I have (non-culling preferred). They are a party of buff orpington, rhode...
I have five ~1 year old Silkie hens that I need to rehome. Three are black, one salt & pepper colored (blue), and one brown (partridge). They are friendly hens, but have a bit of a squawking temperament at times (probably aren't purebred, since the ends of their wings are not fluffy, but...
From what I had read in my research on chickens, before I got my Silkies, my understanding was that as prey animals, chickens are usually quiet, other than the occasional sound from laying an egg or alarming other chickens of a predator/danger. That has not been the case with the Silkies that I...
I have 5 Silkies that I raised from chicks (each a year old), and all had been doing well and laying eggs. Over the winter, one day, a hen I call Brownie became lethargic and simply sat on the ground in the backyard in the shade. Since it was cold, I moved her into some sunlight to warm up...