one of my chickens behaving normal during the day. When night time comes inside it's coop it starts making "scratching movements on its chest area. It'd walk backwards doing this until it topples over backwards. I took it out just now and there was no resistance at all, I could lay it on its...
So, I got four chicken four days ago and we live in southern California where it's still pleasantly sunny. The chickens spend all day in the coop other than coming out maybe once for food and maybe, maybe another time for a treat if I hold it under their beaks long enough?! They're about 7-8...
I looked at my chicken feed after two months and found tons of little black (easy squeezable about the size of - that little line) bugs in there, even though I kept it covered in a plastic container. Now I'm not sure if I can still feed it to the chickens or if I have to get rid of it, any...
Since about 5-6 days now one of my four chicken would sit in the nesting box ALL DAY LONG if we wouldn't lift her out of it, several times a day, everyday!! I thought someone might have an idea what could be the matter? She doesn't peck us when we lift her out and once she's out she's fine...
Since 4 days now, we are proud an happy owners of four chicken. My question, how much greens do I feed them? I usually hang up a really big tree kale leave on a tree bark and it takes them about 2-3 hours to eat it up. Now is that enough or should they have greens all day long?
We built a Chicken Coop for four regular size Chicken. (we have a playmouth rock, rhode island, cochin and another one.) The measurements are on the inside (excl. 2 Nesting Boxes) 2.5 f by 3.8 f. The caged in run is 3.8 by 5.8 or almost 4 by almost 6 f. I'm kind of stressing over it being to...