I have a little bantam hen who for the past almost week has been missing I figured a hawk got her and that was the just the sad fact of the matter, until this morning when i went out to feed the others there she was eating really fast like she had to get back to somewhere so I got my lawn chair...
I have 4 hens all of which are laying except one but she is the only one who my rooster will mount she's bout 7 months old and her half sister just started laying 3 days ago. I'm just curious should i double my search efforts ( They are all free range so every days an Easter egg hunt) or start...
ok so i have 3 5 month old cockerls and a little pullet who have their own little "baby coop" till they get a little bigger and can run with the big birds, well they started off fine with it they would go in every evening round 5 I'd go out there round 5:30 and lock em up for the night and...
Ok so i had my first hawk have a go at my silkie never had a problem with them before this one in particular i had watched being raised along side my older birds this spring and never did his parents have a go at the them when they where babies so i figured that with the copious amount of...
I have a one week old silkie who i believe has a crop impaction her little crop is kinda large and though not real hard it's a lot more firmer than her siblings she is eating and drinking fine and she's jumping around like all the others but this large crops got me worried and id rater see if i...
Yesterday i had 4 little chicks hatch but one of them had a real hard time so i picked a small piece of shell of just to get her started but she still seemed to struggle so for a couple of hours i had to try to restrain myself from helping but finally i just had to help i picked away at the...