My chicken laid her first egg today. I found it and took it inside. When I came back there was shell on the floor and yolk everywhere. She ate her egg! I don’t know why or how to stop this. I then showed them an egg and she jumped up and bit it. I have three chickens her and her sister is the...
Hey there! My chicken is broody. I don’t know what to do I am a first time chicken keeper. She will not leave the nesting box. She does not peck but growls when I touch or go near her. I have put some water and food is her nesting area. I took away her egg she laid. Was this the correct thing to do?
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My chicken Roxy has not been laying for about a week and she usually lays every other day. She is one year old and a bit. I don’t know why. She seems healthy. I clean her cage every week. I don’t think she has mites. She has worming prevention in her food and water. I don’t know if she...
Hi there! Just a quick question. So I have three chickens. Pearl, Bonnie and Roxy. I need some advice. Recently I have noticed that they have been dustbathing a lot more. They never usually use their dustbath but now they use it at least once every day. I thought that this could be because they...
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I am very new to chicken keeping so need some help from chicken experts. This is what I need your help for. I have only ever had 4 chickens before so I have never had to deal with bumblefoot. Therefore I am not sure what it looks like or how to deal with it. Using the information online...
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I have noticed that in the past few days my chickens comb has been going really pale when she goes to bed. She sleeps in her nesting box. She has plenty of food and water during the day and she gets a lot of exersise. I live in England and in the past few days it has been ranging from 20-25...
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My chicken is very well known for getting herself in all sorts of scrapes. This usually happens but it’s never been as bad as this before. Happy he’s bleeding. She is not a free range chicken so always want to come outside. She picks on the bus until she can come out. Therefore Herbig is...
I live in a estate with three chickens. I don’t have a very big garden or coop. On this forum we can talk about the problems of this and how to prevent them. We can also send pics of our gardens, coops and chickens!
Enter a timeline of your chickens.
My first chickens were Henrietta and Roxy! Here is a picture timeline of them:
Unfortually Henrietta died but I still have Roxy to this very day!
Two days ago I got two more chickens! Pearl and Bonnie!
Here they are:
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I recently got two new chickens. One of my original chickens is bullying the others. She has pecked on on the leg and a lot of skin has come of. I have put some antiseptic and germaline on it but I don’t know what else to do. Please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you
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I had two chickens and one passed away in March. Then I had one and she was very loud and distressed so we got two more. We got the others two yesterday. They are 18 weeks old but my original chicken is nearly a year. The original chicken is picking on them. She has made one bleed...