Ok thank you for the article. But I’m moving to this house with my five hens, so how do I quarantine the 12 on the new lot from my hens? They’ve been all over the yard so I’m not sure that quarantine method will work, because I’m not bringing new chickens to me, I’m bringing my current flock to...
Hi guys! I’m not sure if this is where i should be posting this, but better somewhere than nowhere lol.
Ok so let me set this up real quick before I get into the questions. So I recently was given ownership of 12 chickens, including one rooster. I already have 5 hens of my own. Right now, the...
Hey guys! So my 5 hens will be 9 months old on the 11 this month (December) and I noticed something strange today when I went to collect eggs. There were only 2 eggs, which didn't surprise me since my one hen is molting and they hardly ever all lay in the same day. But what surprised me was the...
Ok so I have 5 hens, all different breeds (except my two leghorn sisters) and no matter what I do, they ALL lay in the SAME nesting box! I have fake eggs in all my boxes, and yet they still only lay in one box. I even tried taking the bedding out of the one box to force them to use other boxes...
I have read a few articles on here already to help with bullying hens, but I have a specific question. I have two brown leghorns, and one of them (Bailey) has become very aggressive with my buff orpington. I'm almost certain that it's because they have too small of an enclosure (which I'm...
UPDATE: 9-12-17
I got 5 eggs today! I even caught Becky (the recovering broody leghorn) in the box! I'm happy because she gave me an egg again finally, but also for 5 eggs in one day, which has never happened before! I feel like a proud mother. :lol: :cool:
I made a video for my friends of my 5 hens a while ago, and I realized- I never posted it here!
I'm currently editing another video for them (I need to record more clips though) so there will be more like this in the future lol
I have 5 hens who will be 6 months old in a few days, and they've all started giving me eggs. Today I got 4 eggs! Normally I get 2, maybe 3, so I was pretty happy :)
I bought them from my local feed store. She looks exactly like the brown leghorns I see in pictures on google:
This is her when she started going broody (there's a filter on the image, so if it looks oddly blue, that's why!) about a month ago. She would hiss and puff up when I or my other...
I just recently broke my brown leghorn hen from her broodiness, but now she seems very distant and not as friendly as she used to be. :c She hasn't started laying again and she hasn't given any interest in the nesting boxes at all really. But she's eating, drinking, and running with my other...
I just recently broke my brown leghorn hen from her broodiness, but now she seems very distant and not as friendly as she used to be. :c She hasn't started laying again and she hasn't given any interest in the nesting boxes at all really. But she's eating, drinking, and running with my other...
I've gone and read the other articles for evacuating, thanks for pointing that out! I'm now trying to figure out how to evacuate them in a dog crate my pastors family has and a dog play pen we used when they were chicks.
Can anyone tell me what items I would need to bring with me for my...
As far as I know, we don't have any fairgrounds or local farmers providing safe housing for livestock. Our plan is to come back 2 or 3 days after evacuating, because at this point where we live there will be little rain/water, mostly just wind. We're now talking about reinforcing the coop to...