So I am pretty new to chickens and this is my first death. I have 11 hen and 1 rooster. I raised them all but 2 from day 1. (I have had the 2 for about 2 months now.) I woke up this morning to find Lucy one of my RIR dead and I have no idea why!!! Last night was the first night I did not check...
Yes she is alert!
And she pooped quite a few times through the night!
Should I put here back with her flock
Well last night was long! She was quite and calm. Around 4am she started pooping and did quite a bit till about 8am. At that she she seemed to be herself so I put her back outside. She...
I was just reading this because something is not right with my girl. What happened to Black Eyed Susan?
My little lady is a 22 weeks old Buff orpington and has not laid yet. Well tonight when I went to close the coop I saw that she wasn't on the roost. She was squatting down like she was laying...
Hi! So my girls have just started laying. Last week was our first egg from one of our leghorns. 3 days ago we got our first beautiful small brown one from a RIR. Well yesterday I went down to check the egg boxes and was super excited to see 3 eggs. 1 white from a LH 1 brown for RIR and another...
Ok so one of my questions and concerns is the roosters should only be mating with laying hens? Because I asked this question before and the response I got was he's young he can be a little rough but he should calm down, it nature, he is doing his job and so on. First and for most I want to keep...
Thank you for your help! We never wanted any Roosters. And now we have 3. We are so sad about this! The RIR was Injured at a week old and i held him all the time. We was my baby and then he started to look different. I don't want to get rid of any of them. But it sounds like the boys should go...
The RIR has been mating for a few weeks now. In the beginning we didnt know what was going on and one time we thought he was killing one of the buff orpingtons. So we intervened and she had blood on her face and comb and she looked like she had a black eye. And whenever he went near them they...
So I have 9 hens. How many roosters should I keep? I do NOT plan on hatching any. We are just looking for pets and eggs. My 2 daughter 3 and 4 years old love to help care for them. But are not allowed near the chickens when Big Red is around. I'm sure he would do anything to protect his ladies...
I knew it from the beginning! Anna and Else are Sven and Kristoff lol. I can't believe out of 12 hens we only have 9! Thank you all for your help! Now I have another question. Why don't the boys fight? My RIR is very dominant!