i dont pin my chickens up at night, they have a run attacted to the coop. They wont use their roosting pole. They want to sleep in the doorway into the coop. And then in the morning their bottoms are a mess from poo. I thought maybe their roosting pole wasnt high enough so i had my husband...
Yesterday I caught one of my girls going after one of the others. She would pin her down and was pecking at her neck and comb. She had plucked a few of the small feathers from her neck and put a few pecks on her comb before i was able to get to them. I have no seperated the hurt one from the...
I came home yesterday to find my first egg! I didn't no which girl it came from though but this morning I caught her in action.
First Egg I Found!
The white one on the left is a jumbo store baught egg, the little brown one on the right is from my girl!
Caught her in Action!
Her...
When I let my girls out yesterday morning I noticed one of them had a swollen wattle that looked to have some dried blood on it. Will this heal on its own or is there something I need to do?
My girls are 18 weeks and no eggs yet! Also in the last 2-3 weeks i've noticed that 2 of them has gotten bigger brighter red combs and wattles. The other 2 are starting to now. Is this normal for hens?
At how many weeks do i need to place an object in the nesting box for them to no where to lay eggs? And will they see this ball or fake egg and just auto. no where to start laying them?
I have 4 "mutt" chickens. They all seem to look the same and be developing at the same pace. They will be 8 weeks on the 29th of April. Roos? or Pullets?
Is it possible that my peeps have lice or fleas. I've noticed them picking at each other and themselves and they have little bald spots? Is this normal?
I just recently got 4 sex link hen peeps. Atleast I was told they are female. They are a light yellowish white color. And from all the research i've done it says the females should be a redish colored. I got them from a local lady, all hers peeps where black with the white spot on the head...