Help please, this will be my first winter and its get cold in Nebraska. So I will start from the top, my coop is not your ordinary coop it is a shed building made out of plastic/resin material and is 4 by 6. Plenty of room for my three girls. It has one window on each side, one I cut out...
Hey y'all, i have three chickens total two laying hens and one that is maybe 3-4 months. the little on is a silkie and is getting picked on by the one hen the black sex link. she always pecks her and when they are on the roost she pecks her some more. What can i do to get he to stop and leave...
So quick question, we integrated a silkie chick about 3 weeks ago into the coop with the other two ladies who are around 8-9 months and are laying daily!!! At night when they get up on the roost the two big girls get up on the roost and the little girl sits on the edge of the box..If I put the...
So here we go, I have two hens who are same age and one last week starting laying she is a buff orphington, her eggs have been solid no problems. her counter part is a black sex link and she laid two last night one from the roost she sleeps on and the other on the ladder up to their nests...
Morning roosters!!! Lol, I have a buff orphington and a black sex link that are just about ready to start laying and have a around 4-5 week old silkie. Am wondering how to integrate the little one so she can hang with the big girls. Any ideas, suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Just added a new girl to the pack, her name is Mae and she is a silkie. We already have a buff orphington and black sexlink. Any ideas, suggestions on how we should introduce them? Time frame for that? Don't want to upset the two girls, by the time mae is big enough to head out into the coop...
my two hens, Black sexlink, and buff orpington have both recently stopped pooping. We just recently removed a rooster from the clan and ever since than they have not been pooping regularly or at all. Any ideas on what this could be from? Heard of something like this before? Stress?
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Am wondering why my girls/boy will not get in their boxes at all?
Or when will they start to sit in there? They are around 12-15 weeks, do I just need to be patient or is there anything I can do to help them find the boxes?
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So eating dinner last night and always let the girls free range after work for a bit to much on some goodies, and I happen to look out the window and a fox is carrying one of my girls in his mouth. I quickly ran out side and he dropped my girl and I chased that sob 3 blocks down the middles of...
I have chicks that we just moved from their temporary home to their coop. We have a buff, Rhode Island Red and a Black Sex Link.
The sex link is funny she lets you pick her up and always follows me around. The other two want nothing to do with humans, any ideas suggestions on getting them to...
I am in the process of moving our chicks to the coop. It is a building shed 6 by 4 and am wondering what ideas people have. I have not seen a lot of designs made from such a thing but am ready to make it work. Ventilation is a key and there is not much besides two little openings on north and...