I have a hen that went broody about a week ago the eggs she is siting on are not fertilized. I am debating if I should put chicks under her or if I should break her broodiness. We also have a time issue because we are going away at the end of August so we won't be able to care for her and the...
we found out she broke her foot or crunched we had a rat in our she had the chickens got in there and we had a rat trap and we thing her foot got crunched in it.😟😢😣we hope she will be ok
Our hen hurt her foot some how we think the wind blew her around we don't know what to do or what is wrong with her foot if anyone has any ideas or experience please tell us.
Yes we have stopped checking in on her she comes to the house for food and water but other than that we barley see her we are not sure if the nest was made by all the hen's or just her.
Another question that is unrelated but we recently built a new chicken pen for our hens and we want to put a top on it so we can keep out predators. We bought one but it didn't work out any advise for tops/roofs for a chicken pen?
We have a hen, Zinnia, who is 6 months old (her birthday is May 21, 2020). She started laying eggs when she was 5 months old. We gave away our Rooster on November 5, because he was too aggressive with people.
Zinnia was his favorite hen and when he left she went missing a couple week's later...