I own 1 roo. He is a silkie. He free ranges inside a fenced area around the front of my house. There are neighborhood free range chickens and roos that fly into that area. In the last couple weeks, he has found his voice. Now when I go into the fence area to go to my front door he attacks me, we'll he attacks my shoes and ankles. He has pecked my fingers when I try picking him up. Any advice on how to stop this behavior? Or why he he is mean? He was a rescue and I believe he is 4-5 months old. The pic is from 2 months ago.

I bought 2 chickens on Wednesday, and while I have been feeding them, I don't think the Wild Bird Seed bag my mom bought is going to be as sustainable.

So what recommendations do you guys suggest? I heard Tractor Supply has gone down in quality, but that might be outdated news. I don't know any local marts either

Any ideas why he is crowing in the pitch black so early in the morning? Third morning of him disturbing the peace..

Just treated hens with Corrid for 5 days, just found this poop….

We have an ice storm coming, risking up to 3/10ths of ice. Do I need to lock the girls into their coup? Anything else I need to do?

Hello to the flock,

This little silkie Hatcher two days ago.

She has splayed legs and is generally weak. I’ve tried to give her egg yolk via a children’s medicine plunger.

What can I do to increase her odds?

Thank you all in advance.

Hi everyone,

So I have a couple of questions. I have a guy building me a coup and run should be ready by the end of December. Problem is, I got chick's about 6 weeks ago to put in my garage, but 4 of them look close to being full sized egg laying hens. So I got a dog create and some bedding I will put the hens, food and water in. My questions, one leave the door open or closed? It gets somewhat cold here, down to 40f. At night. Should I include a red light for heat as well?

Thanks bunches everyone, you have always been very helpful.

My chicken has a large dent in her beak. It showed up a couple days ago. Is it an infection? Injury? Otherwise she seems healthy. Any tips would be amazing! Thank you.

he’s the only rooster and he’s in with like 13 hens. they all sleep on the nest boxes but he sleeps down on the ground. I keep picking him up and putting him up top, but he always sleeps on the ground at night. what’s going on?

This is my satin silkie Ripley. She is currently broody again and while we’ve let her hatch the last two times (one being last winter) we are trying to break her this time. We have chicks we’re finishing raising to send out and don’t want to start over. Ripley has decided winter time is prime time to go broody. If we let her hatch, we’d bring them in so we can make sure they’re safe. (Predators are a nightmare now that all shrubbery has died). She won’t break. We’ve tried disrupting her the best we can, taking eggs, bringing her inside, removing her from the nesting box, etc. Bringing her inside resulted in her broody inside.

A big reason we’re trying to break her is her rooster Culo. He is absolutely head over heels for my little crazy hen and has been visibly depressed any time she’s had to come inside for any reason. Like her attacking chicks one of our other satins hatched so bad we brought her in. (Ironically shes cuddled with them since). He doesn’t like being separated and we don’t want a rooster inside. Love him, but I work seconds and don’t want to be up early.

Any tips?

3 of my hens have died within the span of a few days. The temperatures have dropped substantialy within the past week. One of them I know was a prolapse. The other 2 however I'm not exactly sure. I assume if it was avian flu the majority of the flock would probably be acting funny right? One of the hens currently seems like she is also on deaths door. Her comb is slightly bloody and raw but assuming it was frostbite or an infection it doesn't appear like it'd be at the point where she'd be dying. Any ideas on what specifically could be the cause? Is it possible it's just the cold temperatures? Keep in mind this is a flock of like 50+ birds.

Merlin has been living with a good friend since October. He is now 8 months old and his development is amazing. He is an incredibly great roo ❤️

It currently does not lay eggs. Today I found this in her nesting box.

Just wanting to confirm… is the yellow stuff something to be concerned about? Someone else said it looked like dried egg yolk so I’m gonna have to keep an eye out for that. If not- anyone know what it could be/any treatments?

Hello!! I have a flock of 3 orpingtons and 3 bantam silkies. The silkies are new to the flock and doing well except for the fact that they won’t go IN the coop at night. I have a coop with a run. Once dusk hits-the orpingtons go up the little ramp and roost inside. I know silkies don’t roost but I would like them inside at night to protect from predators. Right now they just huddle up under the coop. So I go out every night, walk them up the ramp like a kid with a Barbie and put them inside. It’s getting to be annoying. Someone said try and lock them inside for 3 days for them to get the message that home is home. So they are in there together (plenty of food and water obviously) and doing ok. Some folks said do it for a week. So should I do it for a week? What if it doesn’t work? Then what? TIA

What does everyone recommend for a camera to keep an eye on the ladies?

We were free ranging for almost a year but just had another bobcat take out 3 chickens & feel it’s best if we only let them out when we are outside.

That being said, we are upgrading their coop, building a much bigger run & would like to add some nice cameras to help scare off predators in real time.

Any recommendations are appreciated 😄

Flock of 4, only she’s affected. She also had visible feather loss around her neck.

“No idea, a couple of months ago 1 disappeared , yesterday , another one was gone. But... This morning all were gone. I found the 4 but, that's 6 that just disappeared” (These aren’t my chickens, they’re my grandmas. Does anyone have any ideas?)

Ok so I've been raising chickens for a few years now for eggs i currently have 11 hens (1 got grabbed by a fox earlier this year). Me and my wife are planning on expanding our flock to 24 hens. We're talking about getting 2 roosters also so I can sell eggs and chicks (get some more money coming in more than just the eggs that i have been getting). So my question is could anyone give me a decent estimate on how many unfertilized eggs and how many fertilized eggs i might end up getting in a day or week. Basically i don't want to end up getting more baby chicks than eggs because I already know i have a demand for the eggs and i don't want to be telling people that I don't have eggs because too many of them are fertile.