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hi everyone. i recently lost 2 chickens ( a silkie and an aracauna), so the pecking order has greatly changed. my alpha hen, who is a silkie, is now picked on non stop. ive separated her and put her back in and the next day it starts all over again. its the dead of winter and no one is selling...

Hi, so my one hen was victim to the rooster for many months. I bought her a chicken saddle and separated her. Time has passed and the rooster no longer bugs her. However, the feathers on her wings and back have not grown back yet from the rooster over mating her ? It's been 2 months now and she...

Thanks for everyone's support. my hen has safely been put back in the flock and has been left alone

when can you reintroduce a bullied hen back to the flock?

i had the same issue with mine! they ate all their grass in their run and now its just barren so what ive been doing is i only let them out of the run on Saturdays. Saturdays are the the only day were i am home all day and can watch over them. now my run is fairly large and i only have 6...

yes! we have been trapped in by last weeks blizzard and most of their run is snow covered it's a lot more confined then what it was.

the other thing is, my other silkies are all fine, its just the one hen. my silkies actually raised my egg layers

my oldest hen , iggy, is a silkie bantam. recently she was being roughed up by the rooster to the point to where she lost a few feathers on her back. the rooster has since stopped. now, a few weeks after the rooster incident, my rhode island red hen is now attacking her. my silkie is fighting...