This afternoon I came home to find all but one chicken of my flock missing. I spotted the feathers of my silkie mother hen, and ended up finding two of her four chicks in shock on the ground around the backyard. So two of the total four chicks have been found. Hopefully the other two will reveal...
Setting: My chickens are outside during a rainy day. They are standing near a nice, fresh, and cool container of clean water specifically for them. They are also near a dirty old hole filled with mud water.
My chickens will 100% of time choose to drink the mud water.
Twice now I’ve lost a chicken to a myster predator. This is how it goes: I hear a chicken commotion- my flock is kind of making distressed and attention-seeking noises. I go out to check on them and one of them is missing. I look around the whole entire yard and no feathers, no blood, no signs...
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A week or so ago, we had a snow storm and snow got into the chicken’s coop through a loose window. Some snow got onto the back of one of my chickens and those feathers haven’t been the same since.
So, basically, the snow-covered feathers froze and remained frozen for a few days. I would...
My flock has been eggless for multiple months now. Like, for two whole seasons. Since halfway through summer my chickens have not been laying any eggs. I have two 2-year old chickens, and 2 2-month old chickens. I can understand the younger ones not being able to lay yet- but my older ones...
Over the course of the multiple years I’ve had chickens, they’ve always had a fascination with looking inside my house’s windows and into the house. I let my chickens free range most of the time and they often stand or sit down right outside of the door. Do they just like being on the porch or...