These are our new chickens. Edward (formerly Aquarius) and Bella are the white Bantams.
Rose, Cassiopeia and Penny are the 14wk old Marans.
Bella and Edward having a dirt bath
This is Rose
All three of the Maran girls
Bella and Edward
Edward
Hi all
Sorry to post again but I need to see if I can stop this behaviour as the hen is still young.
One of my Maran hens, Rose, is driving me crazy
As an example, I just went in to bath one of the other hens eyes in warm water (see my other thread)
with a soft cotton pad. The poorly hen...
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One of my Marans has a closed eye which can't open. I suspect something might have poked it, like a twig or one of the other chickens.
It doesn't look infected and there is no wound or bleeding. The hen is acting a little strange though, just standing around, but I know
she is...
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Well, we introduced two bantams (adult cock and hen) to three 13wk old marans yesterday and there wasn't fighting, which I was actually expecting!
So I was well happy, but when I went out to check if they had all gone into their coop in the evening, they all had...apart from Aquarius the...
Hi everyone
I'm new here and new to the world of chickens.
Our neighbours gave us two free Japanese Bantams (adult cock and hen) because they didn't want them anymore. So my dad started building a coop, and yesterday we got three 13wk old silver cuckoo Marans and released all of them into...