Posts by steelchair

Cockerels are sexually immature male chickens. Pullets are sexually immature female chickens. Roosters are sexually mature male chickens. Hens are sexually mature female chickens. edit for spelling.

I am also intrested in this. I was going to plant sunflowers on the south face of my run this year, but a perenial would be better.

Is she on a layer feed ration? Do you have hard bottom nest boxes? Maybe add more nesting materials if you are getting cracked eggs.

My brother inlaw and his wife were visiting. I was packing up a fresh dozen eggs and asked if they wanted them. They said Nooo. They couldnt eat brown eggs that came from chickens in my backyard. We had some store bought white eggs that...

Daddy was a Brahma and mommy was a red sexlink.

I set seven eggs from four hens that were laid over two days. One of them was infertile. I have heard that about them being fertile for so many days, but in my experience the more the they are together the better the fertility rate.

I was born in 1980, so yeah that went over my head . What you said made me think of the movie Twins. They have an Arnold and Danny thing going on. The little guy acts like he is twice as big as the big one. He has a lot of attitude for a...

You will know when the roo wants to start breeding by the noise. The roo will try to grab a hen anyway he can. This usually upsets the hen quite a bit. With some practise your roo will get the hang of it.

My big roo doesn't try to breed with my bantams. My bantam roos do breed with my standard hens though.

Love that hairdo ArtGirl. Looks like he has some attitude.