#hens

My 3 year old buff Orpington hen is acting strange she was healthy until today, she has watery yellow white diarrhea poo, she walks very slow and weirdly, she's lethargic, her voice is higher pitched then normal, she doesn't have much of a appetite, drinking lots of water, and ruffled feathers...

I have four healthy Rhode Island Red hens that I raised from chicks over the last year that are in need of rehoming. I was rear-ended by a semi truck the day before Thanksgiving, and I am no longer able to clean and care for them the way they deserve. These girls are well mannered and great egg...

Hello everyone, my name is Luis and live in south florida. We began with 6 baby chicks but lost one the first week to pasty butt. Our flock now is about 8 weeks old and we’re hoping they’re all hens! They have since moved to the coop/covered run area in our back yard and they are growing up...

So, first, we found three ducks dead. Two of them had intact bodies and small bite wounds, and the third looked like something tried to drag him underneath the coop. His head was missing but the stub of his spine was left. Today, I found two hens dead. They both looked like something tried to...

My rooster has recently started to gasp for air and hasn’t been eating, I’ve been giving him orally water to keep him hydrated. His been inside as he is recovering from an attack. We did get him some company just like the vet had suggested, and now I am so devastated seeing him like this. Please...

Hey everyone, I have one Rhode Island Red hen and two Crévecœurs one of which is a rooster (they are separated from my other hens as of now). My RIR hen just started laying eggs at about 6 months old all of them are the same age btw. My parents have told me we canNOT have anymore chicks (I...

Hello everyone, my 2 saddles just arrived today and I tried it first on my EE (easter egger) and she seemed to feel pretty uncomfortable at first. She kept on itching the elastic straps around her wing for like 5-6 minutes, but now she is currently not scratching that much anymore and I THINK...

I always feared to touch chickens and organize their nest I want to know if it is normal to move them from one nest to another I want to know if I can add eggs underneath a chicken so that she incubates them How many eggs does a chicken lay daily and can she lay without a rooster How can I...

So, in my flock the past year, we’ve hatched and grown many male ducks and its not a very good hen to drake ratio. I just found some welsh harlequins, (which I’ve wanted for a while), and we need to even out our flock with more hens, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to quarantine them for like a...

After many moons of convincing and compromising, we will be renting chickens. Not my original plan, but hey! it's chickens! How can I make the transition from the farm into my coop as stress-free as possible? We will be picking them up, and I wasn't sure about putting them right in the coop...

Hi everyone! :frow I do my absolute best to take care of my chickens. Does anyone have any products to recommend for treating mites? Also, if you have any dewormer’s to recommend that would be great! Thank You, -Sunny Flock Raiser :)

My dominate rooster was too rough on our hens..so we served him on dinner table:confused:. Now there are two rooster who are son of the older rooster we had...they both seem to bee equally dominant...but as the old rooster was culled one of my chicken started mounting other chickens..!! Are not...

Hi- our chicken has been acting a little strange the past few weeks he or she is the last one in the coop at night and comes in and out often before going to bed. Tonight we heard a different noise come from it right before it flew onto the roof of the coop. Wondering if it's a roo?

We recently moved in to a home with a large coop and outdoor run in the yard. For 3 months I "babysat" the previous homeowners 3 hens while their home was being built. About a week ago they came to get their hens and I was sad to see them go so I decided to get some replacements and start my own...