They do it so they dont injure each other. Because they are kept in such close quarters, they peck at each other out of boredom or stress and they dont want to risk injury, infection or death.
I agree with you that it is cruel. I adopted 5 of them about 1.5 yrs ago, although, weve just been...
An update of my chickens.. i found my sick chook under the house, but i couldnt get to her. I tried calling her out but all id get was a look. I havnt seen her in about 2 days now. She is no longer under the house. Another chicken of mine is now on her death bed. She was running around as happy...
Thanks. I cooked up some eggs for her, but when i went out to give them to her, she was gone again. Gargh! Im still looking for her.. she has a very good hiding spot wherever it is. I hope she pulls through, my other chicken is a bit lonely now
Hey all, i havent been on here for almost a year now. I havent needed any help, until now.
about a month ago, we had a bad week. We lost four of our five chickens in one day. I found only one dead chook. But a couple of days later one of them showed up again with a sore on her comb. I figured...
Tonight when I checked on the chickens, I found a bandicoot in the chook yard. I'm not too worried about him hurting the chickens or anything, but he is digging under the fence and leaving big holes everywhere.
There was also a possum in the chook house, who ran out as soon as I went in. I...
I have 3x 2yr old hens and 2x 6m old pullets who have just started laying. The pullets have been with the flock for a few months now and were always getting picked on by the older ones as I was expecting. Within the last week or so, the pullets are no longer getting pecked at. I'm thinking it is...
No she's not sitting on any eggs and she does get up to eat etc, so I will just leave her alone. Thanks for your help. I will just put the chicks elsewhere when I get them :-)
Hi all,
I got 4 ex-battery hens about a month or so ago and they've been a bit of a different experience to the last time I had chickens.
Granted, it has been a few years, but last time I always had eggs ready in the morning and I never had a hen stop laying early etc. But this time I'm...