My flock free ranges with a large coop that opens into our garage. Issue I am having is when we let them out in mornings over half of them are staying in the garage or coop. If I leave the door into the garage closed half of them stay in coop like they are trapped. I can't shut them off to the...
This is our first year with chickens. Our coop is quite large & is inside our garage. We use dlm with a combination of straw & pine shavings. We have 24 birds of varying ages (none are below 3 months old & all are fully feathered). We do not heat the coop other than a single heat bulb on there...
We have a hen who yesterday was hiding under the nesting area. We got her out and noticed she was not herself. One she was letting us hold her and she is not ever allowed that. We took her out to the yard and could see one eye was swollen shut and the other was partially that way. She seemed to...
So our flock started as 5 laying, 1 getting ready within a month, and 5/7 still not sure who is boy and who is girl who will lay in Jan/Feb. And one very happy Rooster. Well this weekend it grew! New ones ares as follows 2 laying, 5 very close if not already, 2 no where close to laying, and a...
Here are our 7 babies. Can anyone tell me boy vs girl and how you are telling that? I am lost as to who is what... lol. There are multiple pics of same ones. Any help or pointers are very welcome!! Thanks in advance!!
Ok so I'm reading & reading & reading on here but no matter what I search I just can't seem to find an answer. We have 15 total in our flock... 5 laying, 1 Roo who is I guess a teenager is best way to describe, 1 almost ready to lay, 1 handicapped, 7 young ones (still not sure on sex on these if...
We have a huge nesting box that is separated with tubs for each one and burlap curtains between each for privacy. We have 5 laying RIR and first day we had them all 5 layed, day 2 we only found 3 eggs, day 3 (today) we got 4. Problem was someone decided to poop inside so when we went to move out...
We are new to the chicken world. We got 10 chickens to start and are picking up 5 more this weekend. The 5 we are getting this weekend are older and have been laying for a few weeks. So now wondering there because we know they are ladies. 3 out of ten are teenagers. We believe one hen and one...