We sold our house and must find a home for our 6-hen flock. They are 4 years old, healthy, happy, and still laying (although not as often as they did in their youth). Free to good home - must be secure from predators and it must be understood that they will not be butchered for food. They...
We have a flock of 7 hens. Recently, one (sex-link) has started attacking all the others by pecking at their feet, causing injury.
Is this common? We pulled her out of the coop temporarily, but seeking advice.
Our Easter Egger was laying blue eggs. We have 8 chickens (1 Easter Egger) and we have had no blue eggs for 6 months. Is it possible that the Easter Egger is now laying brown eggs?
We had a molt during that period.
We have 8 chickens of assorted breeds. Our Rhode Island Red ("Red") always follows our Barred Rock ("Rocky") up to the coop at laying time and eats the egg. Only Red does this, and she only eats Rocky's eggs, none of the others. Rocky sometimes lays from the roost into the waste tray, and...