my hen, mabel, has been acting very off this last week. i’ve moved her indoors during the night but allow her to get some sun during the days. she is usually a very vocal chicken but recently she has been very quiet and not laying eggs. she’s a little older than 6, but overall is a healthy...
Hi all! I am a new member and new to raising chickens. We have a sweet flock of 19 layers who are about 6 weeks old. Our sweet lavender Americana has a pretty bad Cross beak. We successfully trimmed her beak last week. She eats and drinks on her own, and holds her own (and then some!) with her...
so my bantam hen hached 1 baby chic ,i know its healthy and can survive 72 hours without food or drink .. but i dont know when she hatched her chic and i have been watch today waiting to see if it will drink water ? It eats 😋 but no water yet
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Got my first two chickens two Saturdays ago.
1 - By accident the cats and chickens are drinking out of the same outdoor dish with water in it.
Can this be a problem to either of them?
2. Chickens have been free-ranging some of the...
Hi, so about two and a half weeks ago I found baby chicks hiding in my yard. My cat outdoors was trying to hunt them down so I collected the ones I could find and returned them to their mother. But after a while after the mother hen had left, I found two baby chicks that were left behind! Afraid...
We started using a rain barrel as a water source for our chickens. We have it attached to a gutter on our chicken coop and it runs off of a corrugated steel roof. I read that Apple Cider Vinegar is a good way to keep algae and bacteria down but I'm just not sure how much to put in the barrel or...