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YEAH they have started to eat again!! :celebrate Thank you everyone for your help and recommendations it's greatly appreciated. We have a chicken tractor we will be using from now on.

Yes it's the same type they have gotten since they went off the chick feed. Their feed is in the chicken coop under their nesting boxes and the trauma was witnessed outside. Could they still associate this?

I have respiratory issues so I will get my husband to do this. Thank you

The feed was put out the same day as the attack and it's been 4 days since the attack

Little background info....We had 3 ISA brown hens that we would let free range usually once a day for a few hours when the weather was nice. A few days ago when they were out free ranging a chicken hawk got one and almost took it's head off. 2 of the hens escaped back into their enclosed run. We...

We have 3 ISA brown chicks that are 9 weeks old. We are feeding them starter / grower mash. The research I have done on this breed suggest they can start laying at around 16-18 weeks. We will be using nonGMO layer pellets when they get older. At what age should we transition them over to the...

Thank you everyone. We put them out on Sunday when it wasn't as hot. We had 3 windows open and put screen up in front of the door out to the run and left it open and had a fan running. We kept a close eye on them with the cameras and everything went well. The temps have dropped back down into...

We will try putting the fan on and having the windows open and hanging a thermometer to see what the temp gets up to. Thank you

We have 3 ISA Brown chicks that will be 7 weeks old Saturday. They are not under a heat lamp. We would like to move them outside to the coop on Saturday. We want to keep them in the coop for at least 2 days so they are familiar with the roost, food, water. The weather is calling for temps in the...

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My question is how long does it take for the hens to establish their pecking order when integrated? We had 6 red sex links about 22 weeks old that were just starting to lay. We purchased 6 black austrolorps that were 11 weeks old. We sectioned off the run with clear plastic and had the red ones...

We don't wash or refrigerate our eggs and have kept them for up to 6 weeks with no problems. The only downfall I have seen is that the white of the egg is watery and does not do well for hard boiling. The yolk usually ends up on one end and if you are going to make deviled eggs this is a big...

Thanks for replying. Does it matter that the chicks are about a week or 2 old? What about the food? Will the older chickens eat it? It's medicated chick starter?

We have a hen that I think is a buff orphington and she seems to go broody ALOT!! She has been broody now for 2 weeks. We just bought 6 RIR straight run chicks at TSC and I was wondering if we give them too her if she will rise them? Do hens raise chicks that they didn't hatch? Will it help...

We just got new peeps from TSC. They are so cute. We wanted to get all female but they only had straight run RIR's. I am hoping that at least four of these are female. We can't have roosters so if they turn out male I'll be heartbroken. Has anyone had luck getting females from TSC?

I have a mixed breed chicken that is doing the same thing. She sits in the nesting box for hours. Last night she slept there. How do you break them? She just started laying and has given maybe 3 eggs. I have 1 other hen that just started laying at the same time (3 weeks ago). I know they have...

The little ones have gone in before the big ones and when the big ones come in they chase them out. Even after the big ones have roosted they watch and when the little ones come in they fly down and chase them out then go back up to roost. I don't want to traumatize the little ones by scooping...

I just introduced 3 8 wk old chicks to my existing 2 18 wk old chickens. For 2 weeks they were side by side in a divided coop to get used to each other. We took the divider down 3 days ago and the one 18 week old will not let the chicks in the coop at night. Every time they try to go inside she...

Thank you so much. I hope that neither one was in pain and I didn't notice.