I have a broody barnevelder. She has been sitting on 15 eggs for over a week. Today, I check on her and ALL of the eggs are gone. They were there yesterday. She also has a few broken eggs stuck to her feathers. What happened to her babies?!?
I am relatively new to the raising chickens thing, and the coop I have came with the house. My chickens are free range during the day, but I would like for them to go back to the coop at night. Right now, they just roost up anywhere EXCEPT the coop. I take them out there every night, put them on...
Hello all,
One of my chickens (Sophie) was found dead in the run without any feathers. Around Christmas we adopted 2 chickens from a friend to give our single chicken, Sophie, companionship. All of her feathers were in the coop, and she was found dead in the snow in the run.
Is it possible...
My hens are disappearing from our coop. We bought 6 chickens around easter of this year. We wound up with 3 hens and 3 roosters. One hen and one rooster had disappeared a couple of weeks ago. The rooster became very mean so we have been shutting them out of the coop, and leaving them in the run...
I have 3 Cochin roosters available to a good home. 2 black and 1 blue. They are beautiful. We cannot keep them because we do not have enough hens to keep them entertained. The hatchery have us 3 hens and 3 roosters unfortunately. Please reply if interested. They are approximately 3 months old.
We moved into our house in October. The previous owners had a chicken coop and left it here. A couple of days after moving in we realized they had left a chicken in the coop. My daughters named her Sophie so after that she was officially our pet. We thought she would need some companions, and...