This morning when we went to let our chickens out, a year-old black star hen didn't come out of the coop with the others. She was standing in the coop, very listless. We brought her out, and she took a drink of water and then went back in the coop. She's now inside the house in a cage. I gave...
This morning when we went to get our girls out of the coop, one of our young Black Stars had a big scratch on her wing and was bleeding. She's 6 months old, and started laying a couple weeks ago. We have a Wyandotte who was the bottom of the pecking order until the two black star pullets came...
Hello, all.
I'm completely new to this, so forgive me if this is a silly question.
Some of my friends with chickens are very insistent that you have to dig down around the entire run and put chicken wire into the ground. I didn't do that when I set up my run because
a.) We were in a time...
Hello, everybody.
I'm adopting four adult chickens from a neighbor some time this week, as soon as we get the run built. We bought a coop off of Craig's List last week. I'm getting two araucanas, one buff orpington, and the fourth is some kind of wyandotte.
I'm excited! And nervous!
I'm...