Hiya everyone, thank you for being there to ask! 🙏💜🙏
I have a mixed Flock of free ranging chickens, big coop has 18 birds, 6 of them are roosters, ages 1 to 2 years old.
The boys have been having a few fights over the girls over the last month or so, just pecked combs, bit of blood, nothing...
Hiya Lovely People, I would really appreciate some advice on how to help our rooster Yang 💛 🐓 recover fully!
Bit of a long story, but I want to give you the history of where we're now at...
About a month ago, Yang was attacked by a pine marten, he escaped twice, but with some pretty horrific...
We have just finished a 2nd big chicken coop and have split the flock, the majority of the young birds (2 to 8 months) are in the new coop.
I moved them in after dark last night, they have been shut in all day today, LOTS of extra food as they usually free range.
Question : How long should they...
We have a hen that has been laying eggs in "secret nests" for the last month, yesterday we found a nest with 18 eggs in it, from 3 hens (different colours) and collected all the eggs, but put a wooden egg in so she would continue to lay there.
Today she has decided to go broody!
Tomorrow I will...
We have been letting our hens sit on their eggs and hatch chicks on their own...
Mumma hens x 2 have been sitting on the eggs of several hens, laid over a couple of weeks...
First hen hatched 9 chicks over 3 or 4 days. 2nd hen has hatched 7 chicks over 5 days, but today there were still 3 eggs...
I am learning about life in France & keeping chickens, learning new words in English and French! 😁
Glad to have just found this website and support community!
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Hiya, my name is Anne and I moved from Edinburgh, Scotland to the Gers region in the South of France in June 2020, with my partner, our cat & pet terrapin.
Our new neighbour keeps chickens but works long hours. My first experience with them wasn't great as the 3 hens scratched up nearly every...