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An update on this. Little red holed up in a feeder and wasn't allowed by the others to get water. I've taken her from the coop and put her in a medium sized crate next to the coop where they can see her and she can see them. She's eating and drinking water like it's going out of style. The...

Checked for creepy crawlies and none I can see. Got three food and three water stations already. Funny thing is at night they all huddle up on either side of her on the roost.

I have ten chickens. The last ones added were October first. Didn't have too many problems until three weeks ago suddenly seven are chasing poor little red from the food and water all the time. She stopped laying and spends a lot of time up on the roost because of this. I've put food and...

They've been together since October first. And unfortunately it's seven out of nine doing the chasing. It's strange since up til three weeks ago they were all getting along. This behavior is very strange. I'm trying to feed her that way. Thanks

One of my hens is continually being chased away from food and water. I have multiple locations for the food and water but any time little red goes for something one or more chases her and beats her up the roost. How do I make sure she gets what she needs? This is a recent thing. Started...

This is a young buff orpington pullet that has been laying for a month. I was over in the area where I put out their food when she went at me. She and another young female were in the same coop up until they were placed in this coop with the others and I was getting eggs from both within...

I just built my chickens a new big coop and moved everyone in from three smaller coops. Now a young pullet just flogged me. I knocked her away and stared her down while telling her no and she was not queen of the coop I was. All the chickens backed away from me. What do I do to keep this...

Today I went out to gather eggs and one of the chickens pecked the hand with the egg. Broke the skin on my hand and the egg. I tapped it on the beak and said "No. Bad chicken". But what bothers me most is none of my chickens have reacted this violently to me removing eggs before.

Yesterday someone wanted only the eggs where there was a rooster in the coop. The ones without a rooster laid eggs that weren't fit to eat.

Wonder if that's where the old quote "Whistling girls and crowing hens both will come to no good ends" comes from? Listened to many an older member of my family quote that when they didn't like something the girls in the family were doing. LOL

Actually this year is the first year they've done this. And so far I've dug up three. Don't know what's got into these birds. Don't want to use their nests digging holes and burying eggs. I guess they figure at two they can do what they want LOL I've been thinking they'd hang from the...

Way. Never said she was smart. She also thinks we can plant money and grow that too.

My chickens have taken to digging holes in their run. Today that created a comment worthy of this category. They decided to bury an egg in one of the holes and I was trying to reclaim it when someone came into the driveway. "So that's where the eggs come from... you plant them and grow extras...

They've got three in there already LOL. I'm beginning to think they've decided it's spring so let's redecorate

Today instead of laying in their nests everybody decided to lay their eggs in one of the holes. Guess they decided they needed a new nest. LOL

My chickens are going on two years old and they have a new habit. Their coop has a dirt floor covered in straw. This weekend I've stood watching them dig down in the ground. They're not hungry unless there is something they need besides the feed and grass clippings I've been adding. Any ideas?

What's worse is the person saying this claiming they raised chickens all their lives.

What's worse is the person saying this claiming they raised chickens all their lives.

What's worse is the person saying this claiming they raised chickens all their lives.

Right now the craziest thing I'm being asked is "how do you know the eggs are fresh" I take them from the nest after they are laid every day and bring to market every Saturday. Then I'm told they are "only fresh" if I get them "from the nests the same day I come to market". <facepalm>