Two days in a row one of our chickens have layed her eggs in the metal food container in the house. The pole she sits on is just above it could she be laying it from up there and dropping it in? It has been broken both times.
After we had one of our three Rhode Island Red chicken we got a new one and she hasn't be acting the same as the original flock of 3. I was told to take one of the chickens I have had and put it in a separate enclosure with the new chicken to get them to know each other and stick together as 3...
Well as you may know a couple says ago we lost a chicken when it drown in the pool leaving two, so yesterday we got another and today she was hesitant to come out to free roam just as the others were when they were new but she isn't tagging along like the original three would and she seems a...
Oh wow thats funny i cant wait to see that!! hahaha And dustbathing, does that mean they are actually trying to clean themselves? or what are they thinking as they are doing it?
Right before it got dark tonight I let them out for a few minutes, they pecked around for bugs as usual for like 2 minutes then the started digging holes and laying with each other and rolling around it was pretty funny and interesting. My only thoughts are they were either cold and warming up...
I just figured this out right before I checked back, as It got darker and colder she was much more calm and I just wrapped my arms around her body and grabbed ahold of her legs.