Hi, My chickens are about 18 weeks old now, and one of them, a red star has suddenly become very aggressive with me, pecking at my clothes and giving me the hairy side eye! She's come at me and I shoo her away but today she jumped up and pushed her chest out like she want to rumble! I've heard...
A racoon got 2 of my girls and the other chickens have stopped eating much...... they are behaving very shy, I get that after the scare they had but they don't want to eat very much and I'm worried, it's been 3 weeks, maybe its a season changing thing although the weather is pretty much the...
So I'm putting lights in my coop after giving the girls some time off from laying, my concern is that there is no dusk, the lights on then it's off and pitch black, wont that affect the chickens? All of a sudden they have to run and roost? I had quite a laugh imaging them all running into each...
I am so devasted my 2 year old lab/weimeraner, threw herself against the chicken wire repeatedly until it gave in, and killed one chicken and seriously wounded another. She did not eat the bird.
I am taking the wounded one to the vet today to see if she can be helped. The question is, the...
I let the chickens roam the garden for few hours a day, then one day i notice a poop below their roosting pole, looked all red and very messy, poop mixed with blood???? they could have eaten rasberries too???/ I have 4 birds and only one is laying, there were 2 laying and then the bloody poop...