Maine

[diana507]

So I think today I am going to try and put the chicken that was sick back with the other girls. She only seems slightly wheezy when she gets extremely wound up trying to escape the box. I have done the proper egg withdrawal time. She is feeling great and wants to be out wandering around and not in the box. Going to be down at the coop today doing more winterizing so figured it would be the best day to do it where my husband and I will both be down there to watch her with them to make sure she don't get picked on. Wish me luck!

 

[diana507]

Well that didn't go as planned. Put her in and they started sorting the pecking order and ganging up on her. And she started wheezing pretty good. My feeling is that in the house for awhile longer.....

 

[lazy gardener]

How's her comb and wattle color? Dusky at all???

 

[diana507]

Her comb is reddish pink little dry looking and her wattles are red

 

[diana507]

Then when she calms down you really don't hear no wheezing much

 

[superchemicalgirl]

They will have to re-sort the pecking order out. Try putting in a ton of food (buy a flock block, throw a ton of boss seeds in there, take a lot of your food, add water and put it in there) so they're distracted. Put her in at night so they wake up with her.

 

[diana507]

 

[buckabucka]

Can you move your hen into the coop still in the box for a few days? Or is that what the photo is showing?

I am going to be reintegrating hens here yet again. When I divided the pullets into flocks, I just guessed which were olive eggers and which were golden cuckoos. I guessed wrong twice, and the 2 cuckoos that aren't with the GCM rooster have the darkest eggs. Now I want them with the correct rooster, so those two will integrate into that flock, and the two Olive eggers that are with the GCM will move to the other side.

I'm hoping it goes more smoothly than last time. They are all in a hoop coop divided down the middle. Even though they can't see each other, I think the fact that they can hear each other makes it harder, but I may be my own anthropomorphism. They are giving off some pretty eggs!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Those are lovely eggs. I think the picture was trying to show her comb, which looked fine to me, although the pictures were blurry.

 

[dodochick92]

i just added two to my flock they fought for like 5 seconds and then went about there business.

i now have three in my flock. i was wondering ......the coop i have now is not suitable for winter because i mistakenly bought a prefab coop, not realizing that it was really small. It survived last winter but this winter i'm worried because it has a lot of drafty spots and the run door broke last winter because of all the snow. So i was wondering if i build an A-frame over the whole thing and then wrapped it with heavy duty plastic if that would work to sort of keep the cold out? i also need some ideas to keep their water from freezing. Any thoughts?