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Get an ointment at a farm and feed supply store called "Black Salve", it's actually purple, smear it all over the pecked part, the other hens will stop pecking after a few tentative pecks, it smells horribleand pretty sure it tastes that way too!

I started with a buff in my original flock of 8 and now I have added 3 more. They ARE broody! At least one, possibly 2 times (once per year per chicken) they have gotten downright mean! I left them alone at first and then when they finally left the coop after about a 2 to three weeks, I just...

Help! I have had chickens for about 5 springs, 2 of my chickens are original flock and the rest of the 8 are 2 springs. For the last month we keep getting a nasty smelling egg among other good eggs, the coops is clean, the water is fresh and clean, the food is the same food we have used for...

oh bummer! Positive?

We bought 2 chicks that we were told were Golden Sex-link pullets. One is now crowing, so I guess it's a cockerel, but that doesn't necessarily mean they both are, right? I'm thinking that a Golden Comet cockerel was put in by mistake? We have other chickens but we're pretty sure we only hear...

lol, redfog! That's what I ended up doing! We have a "fence" of marigolds that the chickens just wouldn't pass through so I pulled up a big clump and they filed right in - it was hilarious! They are loving the corn rows and the beans as long as we de-pod them for em. Lazy girls! I was done...

I was giving my chickens a treat and one of then pecked my ring - when I looked down my abalone gem was gone - She ate it! I have a one carat diamond on my other hand and I was SO glad they didn't go for that one! On the bright side, I did get to buy myself a new ring, lol!

Time to clean up the garden! Can I give it to the chickens? I also have pumpkin leaves and vines & zuchini vines. I can compost the whole lot of it, but if it's edible for chickens I'd rather give it to them.

Thanks for the replies, I was very nervous at the thought of fighting but also worried that our little flock is getting smaller! We moved the coop into the shade and the remaining 4 chickens are not panting from the heat at all now. I'm hopefully going to check on the new chickens today...

We started out with 6 chicks in march and once they were old enough to tell we found out one was a rooster so we found a new home for it. Then we had 5. 2 nights ago one was found dead, no wounds at all, but it was in the 90's and we think it might have died from the heat? Now we have 4 chickens...

All 5 of mine loved worms until about 2 weeks ago! First one chicken started refusing them, now they all don't want anything to do with them at all! They are very picky eaters, won't eat apples, cooked potatoes, in fact not any leftovers at all! Are we feeding them too much chicken food? We keep...

what about a bony carcass? When I pull the spine out of the partially frozen salmon there is quite a bit of meat left on it. I scraped it off the bones last week and the chickens LOVED the raw meat, can I leave it on the bones and let them work it off? Can they choke on the bones?

I don't know exactly, perhaps a standard utility trailer size, 4x8-ish?

Sorry I haven't replied - been busy cleaning the sunroom and getting rid of the rooster, I think we have a buyer for Nigel, he's so sweet, but we just can't have a roo! No more bloody toes since he's out of the coop also. The girls don't have as much to fight over I guess! lol

Well I went to the feed store and bought some Black Salve made by Rooster Booster and put it on her feet, after a couple of pecks they pretty much left her alone, well all of them except the newly Id'd rooster! He's coming up on 7 weeks now and suddenly he's not to gentle anymore. He would NOT...

We get 6 chicks and they grew with plenty of space and then one day at about 3 weeks Bernice got pecked on her toe bad enough to draw blood. From then on they would not leave her alone. I finally put her in a seperate brooder and her foot healed nicely at first. It was almost healed when they...

Hi, we just finished our coop made with a utility trailer. Check it out https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3973379#p3973379 Tonight is their 1st night in it!

And it's about time - the sunroom was beginning to smell real bad! They spent a couple of hours in the little run having a blast eating anything and everything. We still have the nesting boxes to build, but they're only 6 weeks and we have a while. Bernice is quite happy...

He is very mild mannered, not Roo-like bahavior at all. Do all Roos end up being killer chickens or can they be calmer sometimes? We have Buff orpington that seems to rule the henhouse much more than the RI

countrylivin, I too live in Wa State, same area too I think, Plateau? We have our 6 week old chicks in our sunroom and we are lowering the temp to get them used to it. We hope to have them in the coop by this weekend if we can finish it, but the weather is miserable!! Here's my blog with coop...