I have 9 6mo old hens.5 Danish Brown Leghorns and 4 Buff Orphingtons. They have been raised together since 1 day old. I am having a big problem with the 5 stupid brown leghorns. When one or two of them is in the dust bath, the other browns go over and stand by them and peck out the feathers on...
Hi!! Yes they have a seperate area under the coop, where we built them a dust bath area. it is filled with a mixture of sterilized top soil, sand, and wood ash. They LOVE their dustbath!! I also have some exciting news!! I went into the coop today, to clean out the poop hammock, and I found a...
My girls ( 5 brown danish leghorns and 5 buff orphingtons)are 19 weeks old today.They are showing most of the signs of getting ready to start laying.My ? is, will they automatically know to lay in the nest boxes or could they lay anywhere, like in the wood shavings in their coop. They are kept...