Hi there fellow chicken lovers!
I recently introduced 3 ready to lay to my years old's and they are starting to get along but my old 3 are still being quite mean to the new 3.
They don't let them eat or drink when they are all in the coup so I have spread food around so that the new 3 can eat...
Hi All!
I was wondering if I would be able to introduce a new chicken to my hens without them killling her? I would like to get another breed and add her to my flock, I would get a ready to lay bird of course because I know my girls would kill a chick. I also know that they would show her...
Hey there fellow chicken people!
I really need your help! Today I went out to get the eggs from my girls (4 Red Sexlinks) and 2 had been injured, one very badly. She is bloody and barley moving, she's lethargic. The other one has had the combs ripped off either side of her face and is bloody...
So I`ve noticed in the past week that my girls seem to be going throught there food really quick, normally I fill their container once a week as that is how long it would take them to eat the whole conatiner and now it`s every other day! Does this mean they have worms? They don`t seem to be...
My 4 girls have been together since birth so the pecking order was established long ago, and this morning (which happens to be the coldest morning of the winter so far) my husband went out to get the eggs and said 2 of the girls were fighting in the nest box. They have never fought before so we...
For the second time now I have lost both my chickens! After the first time we re-in forced the coup with hardware cloth. That seemed to work for a while anyway... until this morning when I found them dead. There are no tracks in the sand inside the coup and I can`t tell how it`s getting in the...
So every time we go into the coup one of our chickens (we only have two) will get low to the ground and stomp her feet once or twice and fluff out her feathers and wont move. She only does this for a few seconds then walks around like normal What does this mean? Thanks in advance for your help...