I'm having the most bizarre problem. My chickens are free-range, but they all come back to their coop at night and are locked in. The problem is during the day something is happening. The first day we lost 3 chickens. I kept them in the coop because I was looking to trap whatever took them. I...
I'm a little concerned about my dominique, her name is Twilight. She is acting fine, maybe a little less social but still peppy and keeps up with the other chickens, but she is losing feathers. Could she be molting? She was born in April I think, she so is around 9 months old, is that too young...
I'm "kinda" new to BYC. I've followed this website since the spring when my husband and I decided it would be great to have chickens. I've been wanting to become a member for a while but I just didn't get around to it until my Red started acting sick. But I'm happy I finally signed up!
We...
My husband and I are fairly new to chicken ownership, we build a large coop in the spring and 12 baby chicks. They are very happy chickens, they are free range (all except two days a week) and we also feed them organic food.
Today I let my chickens out to free range and after a while a...