11 hens, one pugnacious rooster; we feed them this: https://organicfeeds.com/products/chicken/organic-egg-layer-pellets/ plus I often give them dried meal worms and grubs as a treat and they typically free range.
Will you please elaborate? If that's the case, what can we do? ...and that doesn't really explain why the rooster's feathers don't seem to be filling back in. Thank you!
Hi,
Our rooster started molting at the end of February. We live in Maine so this was a little alarming, but he did fine through the winter. It was a hard molt and he lost most of his chest feathers, the majority of which still have not grown back. There are also a few hens with small bald...
After an unfortunate miscommunication between my husband and I last night, the door to our chicken run was never closed. Please no judgment. We're heartbroken. When I went outside this morning, I found two carcasses about 10 feet from the coop. One was a hen, sitting upright (sorry, but as...