Daisy is 30 weeks old. When I closed the coop tonight she fell from the roost. She couldn't seem to get her neck straight. I brought her inside. She got her neck straight and was drinking and eating. I gave her backside an inspection. There was a rock frozen onto her backside feathers.
Got it...
I have a 20 week old chicken that is walking backwards. Almost as if she has no control. She will be standing there and suddenly going backwards as if involuntary
My chickens are- 4 months old.
Everyone is roosting except 5 of them. I have a "runt" who is half of everyone else's size. I think all 5 are at the bottom of the "pecking order" but I have 3 different heights of roosts. (2 roosts for each height)
Tonight I put all 5 on the bottom roost and...
I have house/cat/chicken sitters who will be living at my house for the 12 days we are in Mexico.. A family trip to celebrate my mother-in-laws recovery from breast cancer.
Anyway-I have a potentially strange question.
What happens when you go away? Do the chickens forget you and you have to...
I currently have 10 -9 week old chicks
And 10- 7 week old chicks.
The nesting boxes are covered so they can't use them yet. What age do I take the covers off?
It's been 2 weeks originally she was curling her toes to walk/limp as then it seemed to get a little better-she was walking lightly on it normally. Which she is still doing. However, I found her twice on her back while the other chickens walked on her. So tonight she's in a little cage with...
New to raising chickens. I'm exhausted from worry. Tuesday, two hawks got in our run and killed 4 of our babies. 7 weeks old.
After getting the remaining 21 chicks in their coop-it took my husband and I - 25 minutes to get these hawks to go out the same way they came in.
We have since...