My flock was attacked by a hawk two days ago. This poor girl ended up injured. I cleaned out the wound with a 50/50 of hydrogen peroxide and water and then I put antibiotic ointment on it. She is acting fine, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to look while it's healing. Does this look infected...
Need some advice. My free range chickens have recently found themselves into my neighbors yard. Of course it's the one unfriendly neighbor around me. She text me complaining yesterday and I told her we would put a fence up. She said I need to find a way to keep them out till then. I put up the...
Hi everyone. I'm a new chicken owner of 18 week pullets. I just went into my coop to find 2 eggs in the bottom of the coop under the roosting board, not in the nesting boxes. (First time any of them laid an egg). One looks like it has been pecked and one is soft shelled. I wonder why thy chose...
Hi everyone. So I'm new at all of this. I have 17 week old pullets at home but we're just given (2) one year old hens from someone moving that couldn't keep them. This was about a week ago and they still haven't laid any eggs for me yet. I was told they lay already. Is this odd? How long do you...
Hello. My husband and I are fist time chicken owners. We have 5 pullets we bought and 2 hens about a year old somebody just gave us. I find myself going online to look up questions a lot so was excited to find this group.