For the past few weeks, one of my chickens has been consistently making a weird sound - something like a honk/yelp for lack of a better way to describe it. I searched on byc but didn't find anything conclusive and assumed it wasn't a big deal since my chicken was behaving normally.
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One of my chickens started laying recently in the nestbox in the coop. One day I noticed a small clutch of three eggs outside the run, in a makeshift nest by the bale of straw we have. I quickly realized a second chicken had started laying, and troublingly, this chicken always escapes out the...
My chickens are about 10-11 weeks old, and I had gotten them from a hatchery. I've started to hear the transition from the chirps to the clucking these past few weeks and noticed these two suspicious ones.. The buff orp has had that tail sticking out for awhile now but the barred rock not so...
Searched for this topic but didn't find anything.. I have about 7 10week old chickens outside. I notice that they don't seem to be drinking a lot of water. I only have a 1 quart waterer out at the moment and when I get home from work I notice there's still about 1/4 water remaining in it...
My chicks are almost 3 weeks old and today I noticed one of them had a rather crusty looking back. Her feathers seemed matted together and it was scary to see her grooming herself and see how naked and pink she looked. She is still pretty lively so I'm hoping it's something easily taken care...
Yesterday I began to notice how runty one of my chicks was compared to the others that I had all received last Wednesday. I thought at first it was maybe because the bigger chicks were shoving her aside from the food and water but then I noticed her injury on her side. I don't know how she got...