Can anyone help one of my girls has gone very lethargic and isn't eating but she is drinking she hasn't laid today and usually lays everyday she seems very weak and the other Hens are pecking her feathers out , what can I do?.
i think it is babies, the foxes certainly looked healthy enough, just a bit too close to my house for comfort.
i am hoping to replace my hen today as my coop feels odd with only 3 ladies
sadly the foxes got to one of my chickens today, it was at 1.30 in the afternoon and i had just popped in for a sec when 2 foxes managed to corner my blackrock right near my back door, the other 3 hens ran inside my house and hid in my lounge. I frightened off the foxes and found the body and...
thank you lightchick that link gave me everything i needed to know, lets just say i have a very stroppy hen in a big dog cage for a while, thanks again for all your help
thanks the kids were getting frantic thinking she may be ill, I heard somewhere that they may need a full time light,????? does she have to be kept in a full time light or will the shed (dark at night) do
I am quite new to keeping hens and im learning alot as i go along
i think one of my hens has gone broody, she is a cuckoo maran and up till now was the greediest and first to food,now she sits in her nest box all the time she rarely comes out even though its very hot. I took her off the nest in...