My silkie has been acting sick for the past week, i brought her in and have been trying to nurse her, but she isn't looking any better.
She hardly eats anything, drinks very little & just stands in the same spot. I was checking on her earlier and she went to jump back into her box, and just fell...
I just got a five wk old rooster from one of my friends, and he's clicking his beak. I've never had one this young and was wondering if this is normal? I've got over twenty and have never heard this.
Do some chickens do that or could it be a problem?
So my DH brought home a turkey! I never thought we were going to get one!
What in the world do i feed him?
And how long should it take for him to get used to use so we can let him free range?
My peacocks and chickens are having a fit over him! He's really talkive!
Thanks!
I have a tiny hen who is being picked on by the other chickens. I have two girls who aren't old enough to lay and then four roos who don't pick on her as much but will grab her. My husband says the boys are trying to mate her, but i don't understand why the girls are messing with her?
It got...
I just joined this site! I loved reading everything & its helped me alot with starting to raise my chickens!
I got 7 grown chickens total, a Frizzle rooster, a silver wing duck back rooster, a old english hen, a aracona hen, a barred rock hen and then a yellow hen and a white hen.
Plus i...
So this is my first post =]
Well last night after we went to bed we heard our chickens screaming, well the rooster has taken to trying to mate the girls and we thought thats what it was till they started screaming in a different way. We ran outside and saw our dog had climbed the fench (its a...