Help! What’s the best way to fix a broken toe on my girl. I noticed she was lipping yesterday and my husband thinks her mid toe is broke. Never dealt with this before. Thanks for any help
Ok so I have had my chickens for about a year now and never have seen any type of worms in my girls poop until this morning. I took a picture so you guys can help me as to what I need to do. I was reading online a bit but I’m getting so much info and not sure what works the best. I will say I am...
ok so I went to let the girls out of the coop and I noticed a pile of feathers underneath where Mia was roosting. Any ideas? She is one that we can never catch but it kinda looks as if the are off her backside. There’s no bald patch anywhere that I can see.
One of my hens is laying a eggs with no shell?? I had found maybe 4 or 5 in the past week? Not sure who is doing it though. They have oyster shells in their food already and are free range during the day. They all look healthy and are still eating and drinking regularly. It has been hot the...
ok so I’m not sure what kinda little fly is in my girls coop. I clean out under their perch every couple days with the hot weather now so the bugs don’t come and it don’t stink. Now my question is there are these little bugs crawling around and then some look like tiny little flys. I do not see...
Ok so my chicks are going on 7 weeks old and seem to have all their feathers in now. So my question is when can I take heat lamp off off them and when can they go into outside coop. It gets into the lower 30s here at night and 40-60 during the day. Thanks
ok so I have a huge tote that my chicks are in. We have 9 that are going on 5 weeks so yep they are getting big very fast. We have a few that are just not growing as fast and I wasn’t sure weather to separate them into a different tote or just let them be. They did peck the one but I don’t think...
ok so first time with chicks. I went down to feed them a little bit ago and I always fill the feeder then put some on my had to eat from. Well my on girl chippy always jumps on my hand to eat. Well tonight I noticed a booboo on her. Not sure how to treat it. Any help would be appreciated. She...
ok so I adopted 4 girls at the end of November. We hurried up and built a coop and run for them and they have been in it since the 2nd week of December. I didn’t let them out because we have had a cold winter. So it was nice nice out today and is suppose to be nice for over a week low 20s and...
ok so Can I put one of the girls little water jug in coop with them during the day? The temps have been single digits and with wind chill in the negatives. Until today they would go out and get drinks and food but it’s windy today and I went to warm up water and they didn’t want to come out of...
ok so I just came back in from feeding the chickens and refreshing their water for the morning. I looked in the coop to find two eggs that were not there last night when I put them to bed. Now the question is with it being so cold out the eggs cracked down the side and are frozen. Are the still...
Ok so is it ok if chickens don’t want to eat from their feeder? I bought one and they seem to like eating off the ground better?. Also while I was out cleaning the coop today I noticed that the one hen looks like there is grey color on her fletchers on top of head. Never noticed that before is...
Hello there, so we adopted the neighbors 4 hens about a month ago. Didn’t realize how much there is to learn about chickens. Hoping to learn a lot on this site