I have one very angry hen, for the past several nights, since a coyote attack about 1 month ago, she is hard to approach and cawks loudly and puffs up at me when I approach. Today I found her in the egg box, very upset, also puffing and cackling short loud blasts at me. She seems really upset...
I have a flock of 9 hens of two varieties. There is one hen that two other hens are constantly chasing, pecking, jumping on, preventing from eating and drinking. We've witnessed this, when we see it we try to thwart the behavior but that is temporary. Is there anything we can do to help this...
I wonder how that will go? They have been joined at the hip for 2 years, now we have (chicks 6-7 of them) that will be isolated from them til they are large enough coming into the coop. Any thoughts on what might go down? I thought that since there are more of them then the 2 girls it might go...
We moved from the West Coast last year where we had 3 healthy hens. We get to hens from another member on this site. We were not able to take the ladies with us sadly.
We just got the new coop built and are hoping to get some pullets. Anyone in the Tri-Cities know of a good place for us to...
Hi guys, this is my first flock and I have 3 hens here total. Two of them were added to the one I had when I culled the roosters. One I added (Bulldog) as a full grown laying hen, she immediately took the dominant spot over the other two and in fact the first night I put them together (after a...
Hi Everyone, I have a very aggressive rooster that I raised with a very sweet hen, they get along kind of ok but not that great (she retreats to the roof a lot due to overbreeding) - he attacks us mostly, so I got two mature hens and the incubation is nearly complete - the girls are doing great...
Hi I hope I can get some advice. I had 4 chicks, one died very early on and the other 3 turned out to be 2 Roos and a hen. We got rid one roo and have kept the other to keep the hen happy. I put up an ad at the feed store that I was looking for a couple more hens. Someone called today and...
I live in the high desert area of Southern California and my husband and I got our first ever chicks the first week of April. The feed store said they were 90% hen which is what we want. They are Barred Rock. We bought 4 in the hopes of having at least 3 laying hens. We lost Mitzi at 3 weeks...