new hens

  1. aimz127

    Temporary Coop for New Hens

    Hi folks! I'm looking to add about 5 hens before winter hits as I lost a few pullets during my first year with chickens. From looking at the forum, many suggest quarantine for new chickens to watch for disease/illness before integration. Given that coccidia has kicked my butt this season, I'm...
  2. tiho_prskalo

    Any tips for my new chickens?

    Hi, is there any tips for my new chickens? I do not need to write about it because i wrote it and in this app is saved for sure, so here it is: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My mom buyed 10 hens and i have a few questions: 1. Why...
  3. Red Egg

    My Two New Baby Chicks

    I have finally gotten two new little Cochin Bantam chicks! They are so beautiful and I am looking forward to the many years I will get to share with them. I got them from my aunties farm. I will be getting more chickens later on. My plan is to hatch some eggs when these two get old enough to be...
  4. J

    Hen has dark spots on crown

    Hello, This isn’t incredibly urgent, I’m just new to chicken keeping and am a bit worried. I got 3 hens from a local keeper with a large flock less than a week ago, and one of the barred rocks has these dark spots on her crown that none of the other ones do. I looked up something on it but...
  5. T

    Introducing new hens, established ladies stopped laying

    We have had 3 cinnamon queen hens for about 2 months that we were getting 1-2 eggs a day from for a while and when we introduced two new hens to the coop, we have had no eggs for about a week. Is it normal for them to stop laying because of this change or could something be eating our eggs? They...
  6. Shanny123

    New here. Hi we bought a kit for chicken coop and placed it in our large fenced back yard.

    Then we bought 4 young hens from local feed store. We've only had them 3 days and we've already had 4 eggs. The youngest which we think is a Rhode Island Red was being picked on a little yesterday by the other three hens who are a little larger than her. And today she's limping with one foot...
  7. Herne13

    new hens that wont go in the coop

    Hello, we were gifted four new hens a few months back and we are having problems getting them to integrate with the rest of the flock. We have a little under an acre and they free range it most of the day. So they have too many ways to avoid each other. So far one, who was still a poult when...
  8. Mini-Daisy

    2 new Easter egger hens with pale comb and one coughs

    As the title states, we purchased 2 hens and were assured the hens were healthy and currently laying eggs. They are allegedly 9 to 12 month old. The black hen sometimes makes weird coughing like sounds and her comb seems quite pale to me, but she does eat and drink well. The other hen is...
  9. Smalfarmchik

    New girls in town

    I have 8 layers, 4 of which i just got and put in the coop. The other girls are bullying them and injuring them. Also egg production has dropped in the old girl and only 1 of the new girls is laying. The new girls came from a very dirty, confined place and are timid to begin with. I am...
  10. McChickenMc

    Bringing New hens home

    I recently won the lottery with all 4 of the hatchlings I got finding their rooster voice. I had to rehome the I bought (2) 6 month Rhode Island reds and (2) red star hens. They were laying before I got them 4 days ago. They are so different than my. Cochin roosters! So docile. They let me...
  11. juliasc

    Introducing two new hens to our single existing hen.

    Hi everyone! Three days ago we lost our sweet Pie to a heart attack. We are absolutely devastated, but since Pepper is now alone and seemingly very confused and/or bored, we started looking at adopting another hen. (We got Pie and Pepper back in February as baby chicks and they were...
  12. hannahbear

    Adding new pullets to the flock

    Hello All, I just had one of my girls pass away from being egg bound. So now I am down to two hens. I ordered some 4 week old chicks to supplement my flock. I'd like some advice on how to integrate the girls once it's time. I'm planning on waiting until they're at least 7 weeks before...
  13. Squeak61

    Rescue Chickens (and a runaway)

    Oh wow... yesterday was a crazy day. I finally have time to post about it. So. It all started with an email from a fellow chicken-lover who knew I was in CT. I clicked the attached link, and up came a Craigslist ad for 3 hens that were 10 minutes away from me. It stated right there in the ad...
  14. Smuvers Farm

    Quarantine/Integrating *Stranger* Chickens

    We are coming in to 6 new girls for our flock. Complete stranger chickens. Not ones from a friend... not ones we know an accurate ANY history on. So far, the current *owner* THINKS they are around 2 years old. Tomorrow I will post pics so, hopefully, their ages and breeds can be fully...
  15. Dr Peckenstein

    Introducing new hens to a flock

    Hi! I'm not technically new to the community, but this is my first post so I hope I do this right haha! I've raised chickens since I was young but was forced to stop due to health issues in the family, but now I've gotten a chance to start up my flock again and Ive got chicken fever all over...
  16. B

    My beta is a bully

    My second in command has violent tendencies. When I started my flock I had 4 cute little pullets, one was abducted by aliens, one fell prey to a possum and that left my last two... Mary and Rhoda. Mary and Rhoda get a long great, they appear to share everything equally and are stuck to each...
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