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My 3 Cream Legbars are approx 6 months old and have been laying every other day one egg, found 2 soft ones on floor a while back, and then they seem to have settled on laying in the box, this morning, for the first time, 2 warm eggs in the box...
HELP! I went out this morning with my 2 Bielefelders (12 weeks old) morning watermelon, and instead of jumping my lap, they acted frightened and looked anxiously toward the tunnel which goes out to a covered run, they are in a building. They are eating medicated chick crumbles, and a bit of...
My 10 week old pullets, 2 of them, sleep huddled in a corner, I put a box with shaving in the corner and a board over it, they seem to want to be "under" something. I am now starting to think, after looking at other inside coops that mine is designed wrong. The coop is 17 feet long by about 6...
Being a new chicken owner with 2 10 week old Bielefelders, I am wondering if there is some strategies to prevent Bumblefoot? I get that soft bedding is important, I have concrete floors INSIDE that I line with cardboard boxes (just moved here have a years supply at least) covered by the large...
My 2, 2 month old Bielefelder hens (or is pullet the correct term? if so till what age do they turn into hens?) only are interested in "Red" colored things, like tomatoes and now watermelon. Is this because chickens only see certain colors?
Lee
I have just moved back here from Colorado (came to my senses). I have just gotten 2 Bielefelder hens for pets. We had a chicken pet as a child and now that I am retired I wanted that warm and fuzzy chicken love again. I had a inside outside coop made with a tunnel into out shop which is...