Hello friends,
Last summer, we got our first chickens with high hopes.... alas, a year later, they've gotten into a stubborn habit of screaming every morning from 5am-7am. They have quite the spacious chicken compound, yet appear to be demanding to forage with these awful, incessant screams...
Several of our chickens are displaying naked chicken bums. They are about 7 months old, so it's possible that this is a partial molt, although we've seen some pecking and feather eating.
We have 8 hens, and they have a coop that is 4'x5', and a run that is 156' square. They spend about an hour...
What do you feed your chickens for the best tasting eggs? We were sadly underwhelmed by the taste of the first two our chickens presented to us.
We are doing Dumor layer pellets, mealworms, scratch, and occasional table scraps.
Hello all,
This is my feathered friend, Harry: she's around 11 weeks. S/he was purchased as a day-old pullet, but has had us wondering nearly every week. She's always been more aggressive/assertive than the other pullets, and has a taller stance. Now I'm seeing her saddle feathers get quite...
I went out to check on my 7 week old chicks today, and was alarmed to see that everyone has cuts and blood on their noses. A few even have some of their comb removed. The most obvious answer for this would be they were attempting to escape the cage and cut their Ceres on the hardware cloth...
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This is my first time owning chickens, and my first time posting. I have 8 3-week chicks, and we're getting into some issues with the EE. S/he has been pecking the feathers of the others, so much that my poor Delaware can't seem to grow her tail. I'm worried about her tail as it is...