Search results for query: *

Hi, everyone. My least "bright" 1 year old Ameraucana hens tripped over a stick the other day, and has had a limp since. The other hens were pecking at her, so we brought her into the garage and made a little area for her. She's been doing well in confinment, but it's been 9 days now, and she is...

So, the eggs she's sitting on cannot be fertile, as we don't have any roosters anywhere near us. I guess I will have to try the cage thing... we don't have a cage currently, and I've never picked this hen in particular up; it will be a challenge!

So our most dominent (a Buff, after a recent fox attack injured our dominent blue egg laying Americauna) of our hen-only flock has gone broody it seems. We didn't collect the eggs on Friday night, and all through the weekend to today she has prefered to stay in the nestbox. Most recently, when...

Quote: Oh no! that's horrible! ...but they all like to sit with their heads out the door? If she wont move, the other one will sit on top of her with her head out the door, too.

Getting more hens is an interesting suggestion. I will have to talk to my husband! It's odd though their behavior at night. Bella, the one who is been pecked/lowest on the ladder, tries to sleep outside in a tree until we round them into the coop, then they fight and peck at her because she's...

We have three hens; one Americana, two Buff Orphingtons. One of the Buff's is very obviously the lowest on the pecking order. We free range during the day, and they have a small coop that we put them in after nightfall till the morning. Last night after we put them in the coop, the Americana was...

Hi, everyone! So we got our hens from our neighbor. They were keeping about ten hens, but then decided to cut back their flock and offered us a few hens. They gave us three. Two they had gotten as pullets, and they said they began laying after labor day. The other was older, and a known good...

Hi, everyone! My name is Liz, or Lizounette, and I live in Hillsborough, North Carolina with my husband and our hens. We just got our three hens three weeks ago from our neighbor who keeps hens. This is our first chicken-keeping adventure. I'm not sure which breeds they are; but two are light...