Posts by Chido

Oh my I just realized Roostroyer can have a serious wattle battle with a couple certain gentleroos in here :o

My baby, Roostroyer, he's just turned 1 year old this month.  

Quote: Originally Posted by Keltara  Kids and chickens go together like "mac & cheese",  "a horse and carriage", and "peanut butter and jelly".      I agree, but tell that to...

Well, I can't be too scared of her stink eye and street gang manners because she's too pretty :). She reminds me of a ballerina in that picture, so graceful and slender and yet she's already kicked most of my hens' butts. She didn't...

More than half of my flock are hens that a neighbor would just let roam free in the neighborhood and we'd often see the chickens or chicks being chased and/or killed by off-leash dogs (my neighborhood isn't too nice...). Some we got as...

I do feel bad for taking away her chicks, but I already have 7 chickens, the mamma makes 8, and there's one more hen I'm trying to catch. I wouldn't be able to support 14 chickens and also there's the risk of my nieces getting too...

Quote: Originally Posted by azygous  First, to answer your question about whether the hen will be depressed over losing her chicks. No. She will quickly adjust to no longer needing to care for...

  There were 2 stray hens that would come to eat and hang out in our fenced backyard, and our rooster mated with them. Today we finally caught one of the hens , but she had 7 chicks with her. we can't keep that many chicks so we...

I had the same happen to me last year, except we found three chicks instead of one (yay for former neighbor letting his chickens roam the neighborhood all day every day until he moved away... ugh). Your chick is really cute, although...

I don't want to get any more chickens. We already have 7, with two strays that come and hang out in our backyard. The coop we have is small, and I haven't tried to catch the stray hens yet because of lack of space. Once I get a shed...