I have a new hen to my flock (she is a solo newbie as she was only survivor)
She is a cross of ISA Brown (hen) and AmericanaX (rooster) and is now 22 weeks old +/-. Still hasn't developed her comb and no signs of starting to lay. Either her genetics are really confused or wants to be a...
I have a new hen in my flock (only survivor of a hatching) she hasn't started laying yet and when I let the flock free range she doesn't stay with the group and often wanders into the woods/swamp and gets lost. Is there any way to teach/encourage her to stay with the flock? She has been with...
Hello everyone. My neighbor offered to have 1 of her hens set some eggs for me this spring. Of the 4 I gave her, only 2 hatched and 1 is a rooster (and has been rehomed). So I am left with a single adolescent hen that looks nothing like the others (dad is a mixed breed) and she is being attacked...
This is my first time raising chickens, but not my husband's and if he had his way...we still wouldn't have chickens! We have 5 ISA hens and an ISA/Ameraucana X rooster named Wilbur. He showed up in our coop one day...don't know who put him there😉.
Recently retired and moved to Tennessee and...