So last night I couldn’t find one of my chickens. I looked everywhere. I couldn’t find her. Well this morning I find her in my dogs fence dead. Ik my dogs didn’t do it cause I checked around midnight and she wasn’t there. Plus I shut the doggy door to keep them in. Theirs feathers all in the...
Do they grow slower or something? They are 12 weeks old and are still really small. They’re bantam Cochins. I’m trying to wait until they are bigger to intergrate them with my bigger chickens but they haven’t really grown since 8 weeks old.
So I’m thinking about getting that for a brooder. I have a brooder plate and my dad is worried about the house catching on fire with that being plastic and a brooder plate being hot. I don’t know if there is an age restriction or something so hopefully I don’t like kicked off or something. I do...
So my rooster has decided to pick on my favorite hen and I think it’s bc she isn’t part of the cliche he has going on with the rest of the hens. Well recently two of her friends have either died or went missing. It started a little before but now she doesn’t have any friends. Killing isn’t an...
Last night my chickens wouldn’t go in the coop but two. The two that did go in are best friends and love each other. Two of the chickens were on the ground. My hen, Edith was laying on the ground right outside the chicken coop and my rooster Brad was laying in the ditch. I also free range. One I...
I have had chickens for almost 2 years. I have 9 chickens sadly some have died since I got them. 8 hens and a rooster. They free range from the time they woke up till they go to bed. I don’t have many predators and the only predators I do have are birds of prey in which they have a lot of things...
So I went out to check on my chickens. They free range. I noticed that one of my hens has blood on her. I checked her over and there was nothing. No wound or anything. I thought that maybe it was another hens blood and they didn’t have blood on them. I checked the rooster but nothing. Anyone...