I have a hen one year and a half old. She was the very shy one among my small flock of 4 hens before a terrible incident this early summer. On that particular day, my ladies, like what they had been doing everyday, across the small rural path in front of my house, and were having fun searching...
Are your girls getting better now? I only noticed your post today. I have 4 hens, one of them had round worm, diarrhea a while ago. I used safe-guard canning dewaormer, a small dosage proportional to its size, put in its drinking water. That cured her in about a week.
Enjoy reading your post! Since I started raising chickens during the pandemic, I also had a lot of chicken dramas. A proud alpha rooster, a submissive hen raised to the top hen.. I am sorry to hear your old roo was dead ( he wasn't old at all). I think the young son's aggression would abate as...
My hen is just over a year. She recently has watering poops, low appetite, pale face, listless, and she is losing feathers. She also stopped laying. She is one of my flock of 4 hens. About 2 weeks ago, I found a lot of round worms in two pools of droppings on the ground. But I didn't link them...
My hen is 1 year and a half old, and laying. Recently she starts crowing in the morning. Our flock used to have a rooster but he died a few months ago due to illness. Now I have 4 hens in total, including this particular one. I am wondering if anything wrong w her? She does become very...
I feed the flock layer feed, scratches, and mealworm. Plus green vegs. That includes the Alpha roo. I free range. My alpha roo even at his current predicament stays alpha! A serious, meaning no nonsense tough guy. Here he is.. I hope he can walk freely in a few days.
Thanks for those useful and sensible information. Following your links as well as other searches all over the web. I am thinking my alpha's left leg is just a injury from reason unknown to me. He has clear eyes, no gray pupil, strong appetite. Last night I applied splint on his leg and...
I now have the hen takes turns to stay w each boy in a supervised fashion, hopefully it can gives me idea whom she feels most comfortable with. In the meantime, I'm purchasing a Incubator. I have some eggs from my beloved little white hen who was killed by a hawk 6 days ago. I want to hatch her...