Found one of my girls on my deck. Thought she was dead but she's still breathing. Lots of missing feathers. What should I do? She doesn't move. Eyes closed but breathing. I've got her wrapped in a towel holding her. I don't see any injuries other than she's wet and a lot of missing feathers
Hi all. So I just moved from Orlando Fl where I had a cow panel coop, which was perfect for my girls, to caneyville ky. Big BIG change for me. There is a 15x15 metal shed on the property that I want to convert into a coop. I know I'll need to insulate it so it won't be an oven in the summer and...
I know the "coop Lighting" question has been gone over and over again and again, but I have a question that I'm not sure about. I know that some people say "give the girls a break in the winter time" by never putting a light in the coop. I had just gotten a new batch of girls, and decided when...
I know that for humans, we have to grind up flax seed to get any nutritional value from it, but do I have to do that for the chickens too?
wouldn't they just be able to grind it up in their crop?
Hi everybody, I'm April and have 2 acres in Orlando that I am in the process of clearing. I don't have any chickens yet but I want to get 5 or 10. Way back when I was 12 we had about 20 chickens on this property. The area that we kept the chickens in is about 25' by 25'. And that is fenced in...