I conveniently had a chicken become broody last week.....a few days before my chicks were due to ship from Mypetchicken.com.
They shipped today. I'd like to put a few under this hen and try to see if she will take to them.
Any suggestions on how to go about that?
Thinking I'd sneak them under...
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Long story short, I have 3 out of my 5 chickens with crusty, oozy, bubbly eyes and clearly having difficulty breathing. I've seen one of them vomit.
Clearly I have sick chickens.
What I'm looking for advise on is what to do. They are separated from the other two, but I'm not going to be...
in the beginning when I first got the new chickens I'd wait until after dark and take them out of the nesting boxes and set them on the roosts....well one was so out of it she fell off. Disrupted everyone. Oops, didn't do that again.
This evening there were 4 on the roosts and 2 on the...
I recently added 5 hens to the 2 I already had.
When I close them up at night, 4 will either be on top of each other in a nesting box or on top of each other in a corner on the ground. 1 is usually on a roost along with my original 2.
There is roughly 9ft total of roost space. My original 6...
Thank you for your input. I very much appreciate it. She has pooped several times and it looks pretty standard.
Is there somthing I should look for in that department that would be a tell tale sign of what's going on?
I am a new chicken mom and even though I read and ask people as much as I...
I have been searching the threads to find a similar situation to the one I have with my hen, but can't find anything that fits just right. I thinking that I will get much of the same feedback as some of the other posts, but it's kind of a matter of making myself feel better about my poor...