Posts by Mrs. K

Freeze extra eggs in the summer - they are perfectly fine for baking or scrambled.  

As for knowing, haha - I am an experienced poultier, more than 7 years..... got some pullet chicks last summer..... had a horrible predator move in and I was down to those 4 chicks..... thinking about getting some more for the...

I think it tends to bother people more than it does hens. My former roo was adored by all, and his hen's looked terrible, but they were happy, stuck to him like glue and laid eggs. He did have big spurs, and I thought about taking...

no way to be positive, but I would not think much more than a year, if that quite. That is my sense, looking at the pictures, he looks younger not older..... that that is a guess.   I had a rooster in a similar situation, when...

I have been very lucky slipping chicks under a broody. However, I have always waited until it was pretty darn close to the 21 days of broody.   When the broody begins to hear the cheeps, her voice should change, and she should...

I think you will have a fight, and it may be terrible.

By seventeen weeks, are any of the birds much larger than their flockmates? That can be a sign, check the feathers at the back of the neck, and just above and to the side of the tail, they will be narrow.... but I think you would be...

Having them fenced apart, but next to each other, has led to some horrible fights as the hormones kick in. ... just beware  

I have a BA roo. He is not too bad, a tad more aggressive than I like, but what I have finally realized, is the color red, really sets him off. I use the left over red plastic coffee cans to carry feed, and I have since he was a...

"some of my hens follow the alpha rooster but that's normal because their his hens and they follow him every where" and "smaller breeds of chickens and they stay by the barn"   I think you disprove your point, it sounds to me...