For the last couple of weeks I have a hen that keeps pecking at both of her feet until they are all bloody. She just sits on her roost all day and won't come down to eat or drink hardly at all.
She seems fine other than there is something bothering her feet. When she stands she keeps shifting...
Here's the story. My Father raises laying hens and I help him out with them since I am now staying with him. Anyway last Spring he got 31 new born hens and after a couple weeks he put them in their new pen in the old house which we use as a shed now next door. That first night something came in...
Ok, so we hatched a few brown laying hens from my Dad's styrofoam incubator last month and we got seven chicks now out of it. I ended up helping two out of the shells. The first one is now about a month old and is fine, no problems, yadda, yadda, yadda. The second one hatched three weeks ago...
Hi guys this is my first post here at "backyardchickens.com" and I hope to post a lot more.
My Father has been raising chickens here in Nova Scotia for about 16 or 17 years now. He's two groups totally about 60 - 75 laying hens then another group of 5 hens and one rooster (Terry) which he lets...