My white Leghorn, "Beatrice" is very sweet with me but extreeeeemely bossy with my other birds and can only be kept with the 2 other hens she was with when I got her. Because of her tremendous size (she's HUGE) and fear that she could kill one of my other hens if left to her own devices, I have...
I purchased a mister fan from lowes. last year I tried using a small mister and it turned everything to mudd then eventually clooged up and exploded my hose!!! The fan was much more expensive but it covers both my chicken enclosures and the water evaps before it has a chance to settle on the...
My hen who is currently molting and looks just awful but is still eating like a horse, has the same type of feces as you just described. very dark and lose and extremely rancid, smells like my cat's. So I would say that is a normal molt symptom. I almost took her to the vet thinking she had a...
Update!!! Good news, My hen turned out to be a rooster but the people I got him from were more than happy to have him back and in fact had been looking for a frizzle rooster. They said if they'd known it was a boy they would have never let it go so good news all around. Meanwhile another...
I currently have 2 phoenix bantum hen pullets and I am looking for a frizzle hen to add to my little group! She will have a good home as my chickens are very spoiled. I too am in Mesa. Please let me know and I will come and get one! Must be a hen though, as a rooster would cause my neighbors to...
I just recently sent the police over to a neighbors home whos son was shooting an airsoft gun in his back yard and they were landing in my yard. I discovered them because my chickens were taking an interest in them so I went all around the back yard and picked up as many as I could find then...