This usually means your hens are calcium deficient. You can fix this by smashing up egg shells after you use them and feed it to the hens, also you can buy calcium feed. I really hope this makes them stop to many people get rid of their hens because of this problem.
I like to have at least one rooster in my flock because I like to hear them crow, also in my opinion the eggs taste better with a little rooster in them.
Yes cats eat chickens but depending on the breed of chicken they will warn each other when they see it and stay together just listen for wild clucking and look for cats if you have a dog maybe let it out every now and then and that help keep them away also some chickens will attack the cats so...
I like my Silkies even though they are crazy, they aren't afraid to fight cats or people to keep their baby's safe. If you are looking for a breed of chicken to hatch baby chicks this is the breed. They will starve before getting off of their nest, I have had hens try to hatch walnuts they where...
Hello fellow Utahan I also have troubles with my birds being aggressive, the winters are hard here I wish you luck hope you don't have a frostbitten rooster.
I have two stories one is of a silkie hen, the other is about my rooster who died last winter Mr. Bigglwiggles. First the hen, my dad had barrowed a trailer from a friend and he needed it so he came to get it, while looking around for the hitch for it one of our crazy silkie hens came and...
This is one of my Silkie hens they are very pretty and make good mothers, my hens ley an egg a day they do go broody but otherwise a good breed. Funny thing about my hens is that they got ruffed up by the old owners kids so they are a little crazy and attack some people when they come into the...