Help! I had one hen (new mom) and she had 3 eggs that hatched. I found on dead on first day. Next day found the other 2 dead. They were perfect. I new did see them pop their heads out at all. Now I have a new momma hen and she had 3 eggs and one hatched last night heard it peeping and went out...
My 2 year old sex-link had been laying eggs up until a few months ago. Her roommate is still laying eggs (not same breed). She goes up in the coop like she's going to lay, but nothing.
I have a new momma hen, she was sitting on 5 eggs. Found 3 dead so far, can not see anything wrong with them. She has 2 more under her. What would be causing them to die? They were a day old, perfectly formed. Is she stepping on them or smothering them?
My mamma hen died last night and she really never integrated the her 10 week old baby into the flock. They are not accepting her. She has been crying, so sad and she is sitting on my back door step. The other chickens have left her and I don't know what to do.
It looks like my hen is dying and her chick, who is old enough to go with the rest of the flock, won't leave her.They have been together since she was born for months. They are very close. My hen looks sick and the baby is trying to get underneath her, even though she's as big as mom. At this...
Our 1 year old black sex-link quit laying. The other 2 are laying everyday. She goes into the nest everyday to lay, but nothing. She also was laying some very small eggs, no yoke. She's not egg bound or she would be dead by now. They had mites a couple of months ago but we treated them for that...
Is it okay to use my horse fly repellent on my hen? She was attacked by her flock and hurt her horribly, tore up her vent. I just want to put her out when she heals up and I know she will never be able to go back to the flock. I just want to make sure that flies can't get to her bottom. She is...
Am I just over emotional or has anyone felt like this? The few chickens we have left, I just can't care about. She was a half indoor/outdoor chicken. She even had a diaper.
Hi, I have a peacock that showed up out of the blue at my little farm about 6 days ago. He seems young, there are no other peacocks that I have heard or seen around us. I have chickens that have no idea what to make of him. He seems lonely, not that I know anything about Peacocks. We were...
I have a hen that is not tame, but a over a week ago we had noticed her bottom kept getting blacker and really gross. Now like I said she has never been handled, with my other 2 they are tame and I would have put her a Epsom salt bath. I didn't know what to do, but it was getting so bad I...
Hi, I have been taking diatomacous earth, start with a tsp add to water or food. I want to start giving it to my chickens for the same health benefits. Does anyone know how much to add to 2 cups of chicken feed?
I have a problem, I have 2 roosters, my original and one I can't get rid of. Before when I would have a rooster that we didn't want I had some kids come get them. My girls are free range (sleep in the trees) so I felt I needed a rooster. I had actually killed one, it was one of the most horrible...
Hi, I have a hen who went broody and laid one egg of her own. I had the next day another hen lay a egg on top of her which she moved under her. Then I saw another hen laying eggs on top of her, I have no idea how many day in between they are. When Mamma was off her nest there now was 5 eggs...
My white leg horn hen's has black goo on her bottom which has gotten worse were normally she was able to clean it. Today she had a poop stuck to it, that's when I knew I needed to clean her bottom. She actually let me blow dry her wet feathers! She is healthy, eating good, drinking and laying...
My sex link hen keeps getting blackish and white poop stuck on her bottom. Her vent is bright red and seems swollen (not sure). I give her a Epson salt bath and gently rub her bottom and lubricate her vent. She doesn't want to be around the other hens, which I understand to be her bottom/oviduct...
I look out the window and I see two of my hens with one chick each same age fighting. Never seen any of my hens fight. I broke up the fight, which was hard to do by spraying them with the hose and that didn't work so I had to push them away with a broom. Went back into the house and look out and...
I thought it was strange when my broody hen would get off the two eggs that we let her have, another hen would sit on the eggs until the other hen came back and get off the eggs. Now I finally had a look at the nest when they were off it and the other hen has been laying eggs, 5 so far. What...
Question, my chickens are free range as in they stay in the yard. Our rooster gets them up in the trees to roost. We have snow on the ground and it's cold and one of my hens will not come down to eat or drink, she stays up in the trees. My daughter finally got her out of the tree after 2 days...
I have a hen who had 2 chicks 2 days ago. Found both of them dead, I think they suffocated, she wouldn't get off them. We took them and now she won't get off the nest even though there's no chicks. What to do?
It looks like she caught her toe in something. She walks on it but puts it up when she is standing, not real active. She lets me pick her up and we have been cleaning it and putting equade and vetericyn on it. This is 2 days old. Anyone know why or what else I should be doing?