Thanks my white and black chicken is in my profile and my white hens have unfortunately passed since I've been offline :(. I'm pretty sure the white ones might have been leghorns and you're probably right about the Austra White. Thanks :)
I have a hen named Sto who is white with a couple of black feathers on her back and two others who are pure white. I don’t know what breed Sto is but I’m kind of thinking that she is is a white hen or rooster breeded with a barred rock hen or rooster. I’m not sure what the other two pure whites...
It’s mating season again, you know what that means! Last year, my rooster Candy was mating almost every minute with the hens. This left my hens almost naked all winter. I have a new rooster now named Rim and I’m worried that he’ll do the same to his hens. So, how do I prevent this from happening...
Have you ever wondered what chickens do in their free time? Well, chickens aren’t as mindless as you think. In this series, I’ll discuss some interesting things that chickens do and why they do it. I hope you enjoy my very first article. I worked hard on it!
Chickens Cover Themselves in...
I think my hens have mites what do I do? They both start itching with their beaks all the time and sometimes break their feathers. Does anyone know how to get rid of mites?
My hen Oreo passed away this morning. I am thinking it’s from old age seeing that her legs were pale and she just looked old. This is the case for my other hens too. This has me worried about what will happen when one of the hens passes on and I am left with one chicken. I don’t want anymore...
Is it normal for hens to pluck out their feathers? I heard they do it when their stressed but my hens have everything they need to thrive. She started plucking her feathers before my rooster died so she didn’t start because of that. I don’t know why she’s doing it. Does anyone know why? This is...
This is normal behavior of chickens called “the pecking order.” I don’t know why but chickens will find one chicken and pick on them. I got a rooster victim to the pecking order. My neighbor put 7 roosters together in the same pen. One of the roosters was in the same situation as your hen. 6 of...
Depends on how many hens you have. If you have a little amount of hens like me, they get more attached to people and the other chickens. My rooster was killed by a raccoon last month. My 3 hens grieved over him for a day and got over the raccoon in a week. I still think they miss him today...