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I love this board so far. I've already learned so much.

I'm a new chicken owner. I bought my first 4 hens last friday. At first I thought I'd just put them in with the goats and whatever happens happens. Now I've started researching, and I need to have happy chickens!

That brought me here. Nice to meet you all!

Shannon
 
Glad to have you here!

From the information I have read about goats and chickens, you want to make sure of two things:
1) Don't let your goats eat all the chicken feed as they don't have self-control and will eat it all up.
2) Don't let your chickens roost above your goats at night or they will poo on them.

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Sorry that's all I know about keeping goats with chickens! LOL.
 
I definitely don't want poo on my goats. I have just 4 fainting goats with a big run in shed for themselves and now yesterday bought a small chicken coup from tractor supply just to keep them safe - although I was depending on my goats for now to keep preditors out - I read they really do need to be in a coup.

I have a separate pen that is a teeny overgrown so now during the day I am putting the goats there, and the chickens in the other during feeding time. So now the chickens have a bucket of food that they can pick throughout the day before the goats go back at night. I may just put the chickens in the separate pen all together when I build a new bigger coup but I think for now they need the shelter of the goat shed.

One of the chicks is missing SO many feathers and her meat is red underneath. They gave me some dust powder at tractor supply and told me to put it in a pillow case and then put the chicken in and shake it a bit, that she probably has mites. I have no idea about this method. I noticed too that their beaks look cut - 2 are cut and 2 are not. Will it grow back?

They are supposed to be a year old this week - I'm wondering when they will lay eggs after they move into a new home?

I'm very excited to learn all I can!

Thank you for the welcome. =)
 
Who depends on goats to keep predators out? Duh! As I am reading what I wrote, I realize it probably doesn't make sense.

I guess I figure the goats are big enough that foxes don't want them - coyotes don't usually come around here and I've never seen a raccoon but figure they wont go in with the goats anyway. So that was my logic.
 
Hi and :welcome

Glad to have you here!
What you describe does sound like mites. I've never heard of that process to apply the dust before though. :lol:
As for the cut (or trimmed) beaks, they probably won't grow back. Watch them at first and make sure they are eating well. :)

If the chickens are a year old, give them a week or two to get used to their new home, then you can expect eggs.
 
Thank you Kevin and Fierlin. I'm happy to be here!

Here is a photo of the chicken - or hen, not sure the proper term?

Tell me what you think?

When I first go in the pen it's bright like this. After a few minutes it turns a more fleshy color like the bottom.



 
Wow, that does look pretty bad. I don't have much experience with how various problems actually look... but if the chicken's losing that amount of feathers, the skin would probably just be red from having them taken out!
It could be because of mites, feather-pecking (either by the hen herself or other chickens) or a bad molt. If it is mites, you probably need to dust the other birds and the coop as well.

Sorry I can't help more - you should try posting in some of the other sections.
 
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Well I don't have a coup set up yet - I just got it at tractor supply - so whatever happened to her happened with the guy who I bought her from. She seems to be the leader in this little flock of four - so I don't think these girls are fighting, but I don't know anything about chickens either. I just contacted the guy to buy a rabbit hutch he had and somehow he talked me into 4 chickens and delivered everything at 10:30pm so I really couldn't even see the chickens. He literally just grabbed them out of his van and started handing them to me and the kids. We noticed one was missing feathers but it was so dark we could barely see. The next day I saw her and realized it was not good.
 

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