One of my coops only has 4 chickens in it (2 Buffs (2.5 yrs), 2 SLW (6 months old, 1 pullet, 1 roo)). On Wednesday of last week (Oct 1), I noticed one of my Buffs sounded like she had a stuffy nose, so I pulled her out of the coop and locked her in our large brooder. On Friday, my roo also had...
We have lost 5 chickens in the last 2 weeks. :( We free range our chickens during the day and lock them up in the coop at night. The first two were out of our 15 week old pullet flock. They kept going into the woods and we lost 2. All we found were the feathers in the woods - a big circle of...
So I just had a surprising discovery - one of my hens sitting on a secret nest of 14 (yes 14!!!) eggs. We thought our ladies were taking a break from laying due to the extreme heat we've been having. They started slowly laying again about a week ago. Apparently one of them never stopped (she's...
I have 3 11.5 week old SLW chicks. One of them is crowing, but I don't know which one. Two of them look the same, and then one of them is completely different. Unfortunately, the ones that look alike are the ones I think look "roosterish." I'm fine with having one rooster, but if I have two, one...
We've only had our chickens (3 Buff Orpington hens that are ~21 months old) for a couple months. We were feeding them from the bag of feed the guy we bought them from gave us (it was Countryside Organic soy-free layer feed). It was a grain type mix. We were getting 2 eggs a day and the girls...
Hello everyone!
My husband and I just purchased a 17 acre farm and also bought a huge chicken coop (picture below) that came with 3 Buff Orpington hens (18 months old). I have a BS in Animal Science but my background is horses and cattle - I have no chicken experience. The guy we bought the...