Is it possible to get older hens and a rooster to perch? They are a little over a year and have always just huddled in a corner. This has never been an issue until recently when I've came out two days in a row one has been dead. It has been raining but it seems like one is being trampled a night.
So I've just started out with hatching chicks, I've had my chickens for 6 years and nothing has really went wrong. Until now! I've let my broody hens hatch their chicks, that's went okay. I bought one of the cheap incubators since I don't have $700 to spend on a high tech one, but that has...