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I agree with countrygirl. Handle them as often as you can

I'd say it was probably the hen. I'd keep them separated until the little ones catch up in size and then try again.

Clipped wings will certainly help out in this situation. Anytime I get new girls, they stay in the coop for a few days to get used to it and then I begin letting them out in the run and eventually allowed to free range. It's going to take a bit for older birds to adjust to all the new...

Oh my, I will never understand how people can let any animal live like that... No windows and never been outside?! Those are going to some happy girls at their new home. No tips on feather regrowth, I've heard that if it's too bad that sometimes feathers never come back or possibly not until...

Thanks! I agree she's a good looking ;) Good to know, I'm ready for some eggs!

Looks exactly like my silver laced wyandotte

Can someone help me here, I took this girl in last week from someone locally who just didn't have the room for her in her tiny coop since she has "illegal chickens" in her HOA restricted subdivision. She's healthy and has been well cared for, but she told me she purchased her from a feed store...

As everyone else said, it takes time. Just keep socializing with them, offering treats and maybe put some crumble in your hand and see if you can get them to hand feed. My flock that I lost last year never had this issue with being so flighty but the group of pullets I got this year (as day old...

I agree with Biga, we are currently going through this as I took in a chicken (sight unseen) who I was told was same age as my girls (around 3-4 months spread out over the group) and when I got her, holy cow.. she's huge, completely fully grown and there is no way she is even close to the age...

Really not sure They were out in the back yard free ranging and I went inside and was feeding my little guy when my neighbor called and told my my chickens were out front, when I got out there her 12 year old was rounding them up for me but only had 3 out of 6. Went in the back and there was...

We just recently clipped ours since we had an incident where 4 were able to get over the 6' fence into the front yard and we ended up losing a SLW. You could also consider putting netting up over the top, we're doing that in our run as an additional safety measure since the fence is only 5'

Our only fix has been what the above poster did... build a large run off the coop. They seem pretty satisfied with that as the weed growth is consistent and there's always bugs around. I try to send "treats" their way with spent plants from the garden so they still get the garden stuff that they...

Temps were probably in the high 60's up to the mid 80's, so nothing I would've thought they couldn't be capable of tolerating. I checked on them in the evening an all was well, rain had cleared out and we may have had some light showers afterwards. Since they have been in a set habit of putting...

Yeah, they are all fully feathered and have been out in the coop for about 7 weeks and have all faired very well. Stinks just not knowing WHAT did it, but I can understand sometimes it just happens :( Two losses in a week doesn't make me feel very good though. Everyone seemed happy yesterday and...

Sorry, I wasn't really sure where to put this? I had 6 pullets each between 12-14 weeks old, last week we lost our SLW after she was able to get over the fence while free ranging the yard and went MIA (we've since clipped everyones wings). To add insult to injury I went out this AM to feed...

Popping in to introduce myself over here! I started out on BYC last year when we got our first little flock of 5, then I got pregnant and distracted from the site. We lost that flock due to dogs but we're back at it and alot smarter this go around and so far we've got 6 very happy girls! I'm...

We're just on The Woodlands/Magnolia line in an HOA, fortunately we have no back neighbors and the neighbors on either side don't care. Last year was our first flock and we started with 5 chickens which we lost in an unfortunate way with our dogs :( The neighbors were just as upset about the...

He sounds charming. First off... sounds like you're renting so that is a plus that you haven't actually purchased this home next to the moron. Secondly... I would dump any and all of my unwanted scraps over his fence. I'd make sure it's the real stinky stuff.

I used to have buff orphingtons that were named after the Golden Girls