I have a 2 yo hen. She went broody after the passing of her 2 pen mates. I have 4, 2 week old chicks. Can i put them under her at night? Will she see them as hers? She is really defensive of her area. Thanks🐥
Came home from a visit and found my Great Dane hiding under the deck, thought nothing of it, as that is where she hides when scared of something. Several hours later when i went to lock the girls up for the night, one was missing. I went and looked under the deck and found her there. She was...
I have a 2yo Amethyst hen, 2 months ago she stopped laying eggs, she had been laying all winter with no supplemental light. Husband found that she is hard under her wings. She has stopped squatting. She looks like she is always fluffed. Her feathers look shaggy. She is walking slower than...
I recently got 4 new chicks and they are now 4 weeks old. I have 2 australorps, an Easter egger and amethyst. The problem I have is one australorp is very aggressive towards the other 3 to the point the run from her. She is also larger than the other 3. I constantly hear them screaming as she...
My buff orpington pullet has a light pinkish droopy comb and has no other symptoms. She has no pasty butt, her eggs are clean and nice and even acts like a normal chicken should. Is there anything I need to worry about? I have not given her anything but her food, water and oyster shells. She...
My girls came home with me on the 27th of April, they were a few days old i was told. A few weeks ago i found what looked like a small amount of what looked egg white dripping down the side of a chair they like to perch on. Then today, I went out and there was some poop with what looked like egg...
I did it!!!! I took an old dog kennel with a cement floor, built the hen house inside, by myself i might add!!! (Hubby held the wood for the front and back walls so I could cut it out). I used twin wall polycarbonate from the old green house for the roof on the house, gives them light while...
My BO is starting to chase my RIR and BR around the yard. They will be fine together then she will chase whoever is closest to her and jump in the air? When I went to close the coop door last night, they were all on the roost, but the BO was standing up seeing what was going on, the other 2 were...
I have a large old dog kennel that has a concrete floor, I have wrapped the kennel with small gauge netting and the top has a tarp over the top that has been tightly secured down over the sides. I built an A frame chicken coop inside. So my question is, do we have to go out every night and close...
I am a newbie to the world of chickens. I just finished building my coop inside a old chain link dog run, and the girls seem happy with it. I have a buff orp, rir and a sweet barred rock. Gotta keep it small as we are not supposed to have chickens in this community, out in the country no less...
I have a large old dog kennel that has a concrete floor, I have wrapped the kennel with small gauge netting and the top has a tarp over the top that has been tightly secured down over the sides. I built an A frame coop inside. So my question is, do we have to go out every night and close the...
I have an old dog run that I will be using for my new chicks. It has a brick pattern concrete floor. I plan on using sand on it. Will itbe ok or should I rip it up and just have the dirt covered with the sand?