Help please, we have 6 hens and one of them is just getting beat up all the time, the other hens have pecked out her feathers on the back of her head and on her shoulders... I need to do something but I don't know what to do
When can you tell and how can you tell?
also I have one baby that hatched after everyone else and mama was ignoring him/her, I pulled him out of the coop and brought him in, fed him sugar water and kept him warm and now he is perfectly fine, except mama hen still hates him!!!! She attacks him...
I am so excited!!! So far we have 6 fluffy chicks, 1 that just hatched and we have 5 more intact eggs and 2 eggs that look kinda crushed :( but my mama hen is being very protective but she lets me come in and pet everyone!!!
so now I have some questions... What should I do next... How long...
One of my hens has a messy dirty poopy butt, any suggestions? She is big and fat and healthy other than her butt feathers... No blood in her poo either...
I finally got my broody hen off of her eggs, only to find that the other hens have been laying eggs in there too and some of her eggs have been crushed, I pulled out the other hens eggs and the crushed ones then set her back on the eggs, I did manage to snag one for candling.... It has a good...
Well I saw some dark specs but no squiggle lines and it looked like there was a bubble in the egg... I put it back just incase but my fear is they are all bad :'(
How many eggs should I let my white rock hen sit on? I am a little worried I put too many under her... And is it too late to take some away if I did...
We are trying to let my girl hatch some babies to break her bad broody attitude (also I love babies) what will happen if none of the eggs hatch?? We ordered beautiful aracuana (sp) green eggs so we could tell them apart from our brown eggs and she is sitting and covering them all... I read the...
Well my broody hen finally got her foster eggs and she is being such a good girl , she rarely gets off them. My question is once the babies hatch (if they hatch) should I take them away or take mama and babies away... I don't want them pecked to death... Also our nesting box that she is in is an...
One of my hens has gone broody... She sits in her nesting box all day and night... We only have hens... There is no chance of her hatching a chick... One of the people at the feed store mentioned it might help her if I got her some fertile eggs and let her hatch them... I ordered some, they...
ok what is molting? it looks like a pillow fight outside and my white hens look pathetic.. they have stopped laying and I dont know whats wrong? I have added scratch and cottage cheese to their food... (added, not instead of food) and they have been allowed to forage often... HELP PLEASE
we have to re-build the coop due to a recent move... so we are re-vamping the coop and making it better... I have 6 girls with no plans to get anymore... one of them is a jersey giant so she will end up weighing 8-10 lbs... all the other girls are normal size chickens... how big do we need to...
well she isnt a baby anymore, she is about 6 months old... what kind of eggs will she be laying? I have found some dark colored brown, almost a chocolate color eggs... but they are big...not the tiny 1st eggs my other girls laid...
ok so here is all our issues right now... we just moved and our girls coop did not make it though the move, so my poor hens are in their run right now, we have added a make shift roof for now until (hopefully next weekend) we can afford to but more lumber to make them a new home.. my question...
I want to plant a few 'salad bars' for my chickens - something green that I can rotate in and out of their pen, I need to plant something that is hardy and that grows quickly... anyone have any ideas??
I was thinking about clover but wasnt sure if that was good for chickies or not....
on the...
my jersey giant chick, that is supposed to be a girl has a really big tail... I am concerned that she might be a roo... has anyone had jersey giants before? do the girls have a big tail as babies??
my new chicks arent hungry... they eat some of their food but never all of it and they eat their feathers and they dont like treats!!! I dont know whats wrong with them!!! HELP!!! they do like yogurt and have tried cottage cheese... but thats it...
ok so I have no idea what is wrong with my chick, when we got them both one of them (Penelope) didnt look great... and then she started to have poop stick to her butt and she was very very sleepy, I gave her some yogurt and tried to separate the 2 chicks but Sassy wouldnt have any part of it...