So I had 2 hens hatch out chicks and 1 still sitting. The other hens "steal" the nest of the still sitting one causing the mother to be to peck at the chicks. Also one of my mothers is pecking at the other mother chicks. Is this a normal behavior? I have lost 4 chicks now and I have 1 injured...
So I have 3 brooding hens that we are letting them sit on some eggs. We have 1 due yesterday and she had 3 eggs hatch so far. But today she isn't sitting on the eggs because the chicks are wanting to be up and about. If I were to take those eggs she isn't sitting on and put them in the...
We have about 50 hens and over the past few weeks we have had a hen die randomly. We chalked it up to change in temperatures and maybe weak chicken but today I found one dead again :( and this time I noticed white/clear round worms at her butt. So now I am thinking that we have worms in our...
We started raising layer hens last year and have grown to about 50 hens. We have just recently started having problems and I have gotten a lot of good information from the backyard chickens