I have a black Australorpe hen who has six baby chicks. They turned 4 weeks old today. She is an awesome mom! She’s taking great care of her babies! I am really very proud of her! Except that in her protectiveness she has become VERY aggressive to the other chickens in the coop. They are...
I have 5 19 week old hens who are not laying yet. I'm trying to add two new Rhode Island reds who just started laying. They are slightly bigger than my original girls. It's not going well. I'm getting discouraged. I need some success stories to keep me motivated!!!!
I tried to post this yesterday, so if it comes up twice, I'm sorry! Lola is 17 weeks old. She is not the dominant bird in the flock by any stretch of the imagination. I have no other roosters. My black australorpe is top of the pecking order. So is Lola a rooster or a hen?
I have six chickens who are about 12 weeks old. They've been in their coop for 6 weeks and since that time they've been eating very little chicken feed. I've tried three different types of feed without them seeming to like any of them. I've not had to add food to their gravity feeder in the coop...
Hoping you guys can help me, I'm very new to chickens. I have been feeding my chickens chick starter/grower food. I believe it's 20percent protien in a gravity feeder which is in the coop. I was filling it pretty regularly. Recently I started having issues with feather picking and the advise...
So I just started to try to give my 7 week old girls some space. I put a small extension out of my covered run, turned my back for a minute, and two are gone. I'm pretty upset. A hawk was the culprit. Pretty sure that free ranging won't be possible here. Poor girls are in the coop, afraid to...