Just asking if this light susex is a cockerel?
He hasnt starting cocking yet or anything in the morning. He's now all healed as the chickens attacked him, but thats all been sorted now.
I put him with ex battery hens which were very layed back and he's found himself 4 friends now.
Im just...
Hey guys sad day today, woke up one morning to let my girls out the chicken coop and run at 08:30 am thrusday morning. Went inside to sort there seed and came out 10 minutes later to a dead chicken in the nest box. I thought at first it was a pole cat but actually she was killed by another hen...
Hey everyone its been a while. Just dropping by to show you how my chickens are getting on. Firstly I've just moved them to another place in the garden in the shaded area as they were getting to hot, felted there chicken boxes to, and laid bedding down. I've also cemented the pen into the ground...
Need help asap.
So today I went to collect eggs, I had 3 out of 5 hens. Now one hen grabbed the 2 keys from my hand and ran off and swallowed it. Will this hen be ok? I padlock both bbxes to prevent anyone opening them, I'm concerned she may die? Will she eventually poop them out?
She's been...
Is this chicken a baby rooster? It attacks me and everyone in the morning, or when you go in the run to refil the water for example or walk around the run itself etc. It's been cherping very deeply, and have caught it jumping on the girl hens to... It's been pecking my legs, showing the girls...
So last Friday at 5am I let all 6 of my brown layers out there house, and were in a secure pen. I woke up at 6.45am to pure devestaion. All 5 but 1 chicken were dead in the run, but what shocked us as a family more is they were lined up in a row, but the chicken who was alive was in the corner...