We recently added a white leghorn to our existing 2 Rhode Island Red girls. It is plucking and eating the small fluffy feathers around their tails and bottom.
I've read a few posts that this is common and hard to change the behavior of it but I'm not sure what my options are. I don't really...
We are new to chickens. Had them about a month. We had to the smallest one (5/6 weeks) died suddenly last night. I thought it may have accidentally got squashed. Then this morning, I found it's mate dead. A few weeks older it was. No sign of injury or blood or feathers from being attacked. They...
Hi. I've had my 2 chickens for about a month now. We purchased them from a store as point of lay Rhode Island crossbreed and were advised they would start laying within a few weeks. Anyway, day 3 of having them and we got our first egg and then got one every two days or so. But now it's been 5...
Hi. Thanks for taking the time to read and help. I'm very new to poultry and have purchased 4 birds. We are only wanting hens but wanted baby ones to grow up with our kids and be fairly friendly. So we took a risk at buying young ones and are hoping they are girls. Ideally we would like to find...