hens

Hi all, I wondered if anyone with experience of Polish Hens could share some insight for me please. I've had chickens a few years, mainly Buff Orpington but I recently got 2 Polish Hens. Thing is, one of them has slightly strange behaviour and I can't figure out what's causing it. I know that...

My hen's face often goes from pale pink to bright red. For example she's walking around with a pale face and once she sees something exciting her face turns bright red. At first I thought she might not be feeling well, but she's acting just fine. Her face turns brighter when she sees treats...

Yesterday, a group of German Shepherds got into my coop and killed 7 silver lined olive egger pullets and 4 white african guinea fowl that I had been raising up. They just hit 12 weeks and I am devastated. I fixed my fence and fortified it. With that being said, if anyone in Northwest Oklahoma...

(I didn't know what forum to use for this, sorry if it doesn't fit with 'managing your flock') Is it okay to have only roosters in a flock? We've been getting alot of males recently, and I really don't want to rehome them since I get attached way to easily to these babies. So I was wondering if...

I had no idea it was this bad. I knew about the meat chicken industry and other Big Agricultural industries. But, I didn't know it was this bad for the laying hens. Poor things. 😱😡 https://www.thedodo.com/undercover-chickens-laying-hens-egg-photos-1073596755.html

I have two dark brahma hens, one light brahma hen, and a light brahma rooster, all about a year old. I bought them all together a couple weeks ago, but the rooster needs more hens, which now I cannot find any more brahma hens around me. He is making the hens back raw, even with the saddle on...

At the moment, we belive that we have 2 pure-bred light Sussex chooks (a rooster & a hen) but the other 2 concern us. We are fairly sure that They are a Sussex (not sure what specific type) cross with an Easter egger. Any thoughts? they are both hens (top is Clover and bottom is Loona) we...

I am looking for advice. Silkies are 21 weeks. RSL's are 18 weeks. Columbians are 17 weeks. No eggs as of yet. Everything I have read and spoken to other Silkie owners is that they require more protein than the typical 16%. I have everyone on 19% protein and the silkies have been gaining...

My 2 year old hens have all of the sudden stopped laying eggs, they have never done this before. I live in Mississippi and the temperatures have been around 100° lately...could that be a factor in them laying eggs? I do keep them watered and they have plenty of shade.

So i have three hens and two female ducks. Ever since i got my two ducks (around 3 months ago) they’ve tried to mate. We know for a fact that they’re both female and we figured they were doing it for domination but they never stopped. Today they were swimming in their pond and one persistently...

So our chickens have only been laying eggs since May 23rd and only 4 of our hens are laying so far but today we got a double egg? I went to crack and cook a very large egg that my wife was sure was our first double yolk. I was very surprised to find another whole egg shell in the egg! Is this...

Where I live has decided to start spraying for mosquitos, they have decided to do truck spraying through the neighborhood streets and properties. I am not exactly sure when this is suppose to happen yet, but they are suppose to send us an email when it is our time. I am worried that this will...

Say you have 5 roos & 9 hens. After they’re done with the breeding season (let out of their breeding pens), would you separate roos from hens or keep together? If you’d separate, does there need to be a wall to keep the roos from seeing the hens? I have a 40x20 outdoor space to work with...

Hi all! I have 37 chickens total… I have 1 rooster & 6 hens that are over a year old in their own small coop, I have 1 rooster and 21 hens that are 9-10 weeks olds in the new coop/shed we are planning on putting everyone in, and 1 rooster & 7 hens still in the brooder box that are 7 weeks old &...

Hi! I have 6 hens and 1 rooster. About a year old. They have been laying a lot this spring and all of,a sudden they stopped laying the past week or longer. I started giving them a lot,more,produce that we are getting from a local natural grocers. Lots of various veggies and greens. Is that...

This is very bizarre. So I have one hen that had her chicks hatch at least two weeks ago. She's been walking around with them happy as can be. However, there was another hen who was broody at the same time, and continued trying to sit on the eggs until yesterday (I was removing the eggs from...

finally have the coop together! Also have the saddle on one of my hens (Dorothy), her poor back has no feathers on it, got the saddle to protect her and hopefully her feathers will start growing back soon!!

Hello experienced breeders/hatchers. I am wanting suggestions on what to feed my hens from whom I collect eggs for hatching. I read in another post that a 20% protein feed (basically a grower type feed) is recommended along with oyster shell. Are their any other recommendations on feed or...

Hi! This is my first post, as I am a new chicken mom. I got all four of my chickens from a farm animal sanctuary, and all came from abuse/neglect cases. I got a Golden Comet/Red Star and a Rhode Island Red about a month ago, and last weekend I went back and got another Golden Comet and a Barred...

I'm downsizing my flock and I have 2 hens left to sell. Both are about 1.5 years old, healthy, and laying about an egg a day. 1 Rhode Island Red (RIR) 1 Black Australorp Make an offer. I can accept cash or trade for plants, seeds, produce, etc.