Wow, I'm hoping the tone that your comment is sending is me just misreading it because it sure sounds like I'm getting lecture on something. She hasn't been sitting in the coop for 4 months straight. We've been trying to get her to stop. I go out every day and boot her out of the coop, to...
I have a hen that wont stop trying to hatch eggs when we have no rooster. We've been fighting with her for 4 months now. We thought we'd lost her to a fox when my husband found her 3 weeks later hiding in our barn trying to hatch eggs. Shes breaking my heart So I was going look into getting her...
Our one hen Nugget decided to go broody and I let her nest on eggs. Out of the six eggs she had, she hatched 2! They are currently living in our garage in a horse trough because I feel better keeping the chicks safe from the rest of the flock for now. We were lucky enough to just acquire an...
Before I know, it's going to be winter where I live and I'm interested in trying to grow fodder for my hens this winter since it lasts so long around here. I am completely new to this and was wondering what is the best seed to buy. I searched Amazon and so much comes up I wasn't sure what is...
I'm not sure my ducks are very happy. They live in our chicken coop with our chickens and they never seem to "bed down" at night. I've gone out at night to check on everyone before I close them in and the hens will be all roosted up for the night and my ducks are standing in the corner, no...
Do their attitudes change too? She's the only one doing this and she is hiding in the coop even when I let them out to free range. Our one hen is kind of a queen bee and keeps everyone else in line but I haven't heard much noise from them.
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I have 4 hens that have been together for over a year now but over the last few days in the morning I've noticed feathers all through the coop. Well it appears our one big gray hen is getting attacked by either one or all of the other hens. She's missing her feathers on her chest and...
I can do this in the run? Our girls area is dirt and right now it's basically mud with all the rain we're getting. If I pile a layer of leaves, wood chips, pine needles (which we have plenty of all 3 of those in our yard) it'll help with the wet mucky smell out there?
Ok, I was just worried that something might be wrong with one of the girls. As long as it doesn't sound like one of them is pushing organs out of her body haha.
My husband went out to our coop last night to feed the girls and found, what he is calling, an egg with a softer shell, almost leathery, incased in a liquid filled sac. I wish he had taken a picture of it so I could show it but has anyone else ever heard of this or come across it? He said all...
Thanks! I was just wondering because with winter coming where I live, some days it gets so cold we leave the girls shut in the coop and I don't want them getting bored and pecking each other or something like that.
Ok, newbie here.............you mean I don't have to clean my chicken coop once a week? I can use leaves from the ground to help cover the floor? We kind of fell into chickens so I didn't really have a lot of time to research a bunch of stuff. I felt bad I wasn't cleaning the coop more than...
Has anyone ever bought bird supplies, like the toys/treats for parrots/parakeets/etc, to their chickens? Can they have that stuff too?
Like I said it's probably silly but I didn't want to buy something to find out that it could make my girls sick.