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I've had chickens almost 20 years and have never had feather picking and eating problems until the ones I have now. My questions are regarding the five hens that I have together. Three are 2.5 years old and two are 1.5 years old (their babies and the victims of most of the attacks). I...

Hi. I will provide some background and then my main question. If you're short on time, skip the background. Background: I've had chickens for 19 years but took a break for a few year until I had the house and run renovated and enlarged. Two years ago, I bought a dozen "Fun and Funky"...

I've recently made some flock changes. I have two houses and two runs. I moved three cockerels to the smaller house and run. They are not happy but it's better than being dead I told them. They have roosts in the run and in the house. The highest in the run is about 6 feet while, in the...

So, I had a handyman out yesterday to try to make my second chicken house liveable (that contractors never finished a year ago) so I can move three of my cockerels to there. He's coming back Wednesday but there's no roof or windows on the house right now. The problem is Perky. Perky has...

Help! I have a Chicken Game of Thrones. I don’t know what my next move is. I let my chickens have babies and now it’s a mess! I do no not want to kill any of the roosters! Nobody will adopt them so that’s out. Here are the players: Born April 2018: Angel – Easter egg rooster, tries to...

So, I have the following - 1 15-month-old rooster, 3 15-month-old hens, 3 3-month-old cockerels, and 3 3-month-old pullets. Yeah, bad me, I let a hen hatch eggs from the other hens. The main house is 36 ft2 and some 9' high with lots of roosts. It has electricity and heated water bowl and...

I let one of my hens sit on eggs, and now I have gone from 1 rooster and 3 hens to 4 roosters and 6 hens. I want to keep them all but only have one main run and one quarantine run, and the roosters are all large and in charge. I don’t want them to die from being eaten by humans or predators...

So, I have four adults - 1 rooster and 3 hens and six babies coming up on two months. Of those six, I am sure 2 are girls, 1 is a boy, and 3 seem to have characteristics of both. They are mixed breeds so they are different sizes, colors, combs, etc. For the 3 that I don't know, one's comb is...

So, today was the big day, integration day. Perky and her five 5-week-old chicks were getting cramped in the small quarantine run attached to the main run so I let them in the big run with the rooster and two adult hens. I put down straw and seed so everyone was busy mostly eating that at...

So, I had a rooster and three hens and one had babies. Five of them are 19 days old. I have one that's only 14 days old (that another hen dumped in the nest) who lives inside. I get to love on her as the others hate it. Anyway, some of the chicks are already sparring. I'm sure that I'll...

My one-year-old hen Perky sat on six eggs. Four hatched Mon and Tues, and she left the nest. I brought the two other eggs in to the incubator (that my other hens added to her nest before I marked the eggs). One hatched two days later, and she accepted the baby after a 4 am drop off. The last...

This is a long post. Sorry. I have a rooster. His name is Angel but it should be Satan. He is the fifth rooster that I have had in 18 years. Of the other four, two were nice (one I hatched, one raised by a hen) and two were mean (got those as newborns). On the day Angel was born, I saved...

I have four chickens born on 4/21/18. The rooster is named Angel; he's a big Easter egger. The hens are all frizzles - Billie, Daffy, and Perky. Perky is also a naked neck. None of the hens have laid eggs. Angel started crowing at only 3.5 months old, and he is all in to mating. The girls...

I have attached photos of my babies who are 5 weeks old today. I am so confused as to who is a girl and who is a boy! What do you think? Here are my descriptions: 1. Perky - naked neck, hatched first from cream egg, super hyper and outgoing for the first two weeks, felt sure he was a boy if...

Hi. My name's Robyn. I'm not new to chickens at all but getting back in to them after three years without any. I had chickens for 14 years. I have a contractor right now renovating our bird house and pen which are 26 years old. They are making it more than twice as big! I have four chicks...