One of my best laying hens suddenly stopped laying. She will sit in the nesting box all day if we let her. It's been 4 days and she is pooping so I don't think she's egg bound. We have been bathing her in warm water with elsom salt and feeding her extra cacium. She doesnt seem to have a lot of...
Yeah. We planned on waiting till they where almost the same size but they escaped through the fence. Unfortunately I was out of state and my poor wife was the one who had to deal with it.
When I built my run I ran the chicken wire along the ground about 2 feet wide. I was more worried about something digging into the run. Didn't realize it would help keep the chickens in. They can really dig!!
Hello. We are about a year into our chicken journey. We live on the South shore of Massachusetts. We started with 6 chicks. 3 ri reds and 3 buff orps. Unfortunately over the first year we mysteriously lost one of each. No signs of struggle we just chalked it up to nature. This May we picked up...