My flock was attacked by a hawk two days ago. This poor girl ended up injured. I cleaned out the wound with a 50/50 of hydrogen peroxide and water and then I put antibiotic ointment on it. She is acting fine, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to look while it's healing. Does this look infected...
So I went out and bought 300 ft of deer fence netting and spent the day building a nice big inclosure around their coop. They won't exactly be free range anymore but it's a nice big area at least so I think they will be happy.
Thanks for all the input so far. We have 8 chickens. I'm looking online at poultry netting and thinking that might be our best bet. Not sure what to do in the meantime though. I keep looking out to make sure they're staying away from her yard.
Need some advice. My free range chickens have recently found themselves into my neighbors yard. Of course it's the one unfriendly neighbor around me. She text me complaining yesterday and I told her we would put a fence up. She said I need to find a way to keep them out till then. I put up the...
Hi everyone. I'm a new chicken owner of 18 week pullets. I just went into my coop to find 2 eggs in the bottom of the coop under the roosting board, not in the nesting boxes. (First time any of them laid an egg). One looks like it has been pecked and one is soft shelled. I wonder why thy chose...
Thank you. For some reason though, I'm not able to add pictures. I click on browse to add one and a big white "cancel" button pops up on my screen and my pictures don't pop up. Then no matter what I do, I can't get the cancel button off my screen until I close the app out on my phone and open it...
Thank you. We have 1 americauna, 1 NH red, 2 buff orpingtons, 1 buff rock, 1 black sexlink and I believe the last one is an EE although we're not sure about that one.
Oh no. After reading all this, I'm wondering if I'm feeding my chickens the right thing. I got them a couple weeks ago at 15 weeks and when I went to buy their feed, the lady there suggested I buy the one with oyster shells in it which I did. I'm still new to this. This is what they've been...
Hi everyone. So I'm new at all of this. I have 17 week old pullets at home but we're just given (2) one year old hens from someone moving that couldn't keep them. This was about a week ago and they still haven't laid any eggs for me yet. I was told they lay already. Is this odd? How long do you...
Hello. My husband and I are fist time chicken owners. We have 5 pullets we bought and 2 hens about a year old somebody just gave us. I find myself going online to look up questions a lot so was excited to find this group.