Well seems one of my girls that was the biggest and healthiest looks like the other bird or birds might have injured her eye and pecked her crop I took her out and she was not eating just would walk slow and sit we cleaned her up kept her inside our home day 1 her eye is open again now and she...
I give my laying hens laying crumble and leftover food sometimes. Such as mashed potatoes pork chops bread etc recently one of my hens stopped eating and lost weight her coop mate is fine so I started making scrambled eggs and she would eat it but was still not doing much better other then...
:cd Im curious after it rains on my chickens roaming the yard,they fluff up and run their beak down their feathers and each other's. I'm thinking they are trying to dry themselves off,or is there another reason why they ruffle and pick through their feathers? I'm always trying to understand my...
I have a 5 chickens in a good size coop one side has the RIR and Americana they get along great but the Americana has lost most feathers from her bottom and som on her neck,I seen the RIR plucking her bottom and have seen her pulling her own from her bottom, I feed them a great crumble and I...
Hi I'm a new member my girlfriend and I have two chickens one is a Rhode Island red and the other is a Ameraucana, they are the best. we are new to this and have been learning as we go, so far so good as there is so much more to learn and this group is the perfect place for us, and to get to...