During the night we heard a commotion in the hen house and discovered 5 of our hens and our cockerel on the ground. Everyone was apparently terrified, but after examining the area we found no external injuries nor any predator. One of the hens on the ground however was wheezing and was beginning...
Yesterday I noticed our rooster had something strange looking under his wings. At closer examination I realized he had missing feathers under both wings but primarily worse under one. Bless his heart, I have no idea how this happened so quickly without my being aware. Im wondering if this is...
I'm fairly new to the world of Chicken and I have four sweet hens that are about 16-18 weeks and we have been offered a rooster in their age range. We are not interested in breeding so for our situation we would consider the Roo's pros as being some protection of our girls and the novelty for...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Yes!, two days ago :)
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
We have four beautiful girls
(3) What breeds do you have?
Red sex-links
(4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com?
A friend who helped us get started...