Oh thank you! I’ll definitely give that a go!
Also that’s exactly what happened the eggs - They were laying without shells and some with shells were very easily breakable. After reading through these comments I’m starting to think it may have had more to do with the hens’ young age rather than...
We needed a guard dog. We live in the middle of the countryside so we get a lot of burglaries since we don’t have any neighbours it’s very easy for people to break in without anybody noticing. It was actually my Dad who chose the dog though. He did a lot of research into what breeds make good...
He knows how to do sit and paw and wait for his food. He’s usually quite obedient but sometimes he’ll ignore your commands once he gets bored or if he gets distracted by something more interesting. That’s why I’m more concerned about him with the chickens because if he wants to play with them he...
To be honest I can’t be certain that that was the cause. I just read up on it and found that it was a possibility, and it just seemed a bit too coincidental that they stopped laying premature eggs after we took the puppy away. I did look into it at the time though, they were quite young layers...
Hello! So I have a question over how I can train a puppy to be friendly towards chickens? We have a 4 month old puppy which we brought home at 6 weeks old. When we first got him we hoped that by introducing him to the chickens and familiarising him with them we could get him to not view them as...