Recent content by Fishychick

Well, three of my four chicks I hatched (in my photo) are now 6 years old. A year later, I let one of them sit on eggs and got five more. So, I have 9 chickens. I have three runs/houses. Two have two roosters each. The big run and house have the four hens and a rooster who was disabled but...

Keep them both! It's not their fault for being roosters. I have 5 roosters in 3 areas. One is super nasty. One is nice. The other three tolerate me. One rooster is disabled and with 4 hens. The hens prefer your nasty rooster but he will mellow with age. Also, if he's gone, the nice one...

My oldest was a 9.5 year old rooster (mother Delaware, father Easter egger).

I don't "use" my five roosters for anything. They use me to provide them with food, water, shelter, treats, something to attack, etc. They are my reminder never to let my hens sit on eggs again! The roosters are in two areas of their own and not with the girls. I love the boys' beauty and...

I agree with Mrs K which is why I used the pinless peepers. I kept the peepers on for a few months on the hens who were doing the attacking but eventually took them off. It seems that the hen to hen aggression is dependant on the season just as rooster to rooster aggression. So, right now...

I have two chicken houses. They have vinyl coated hardware cloth windows on all sides which I cover in plexiglass for about five months of the year. Up in the eaves, there is a hardware cloth area on two sides the entire length of the roof and maybe five inches down to let air out the top...

I'm not sure that I put the photos in there correctly. Regardless, you can see that Chickentopia does exist! I did NOT make it up! There are two houses (one split about 1/3 and 2/3) and three runs. For the purposes of this post, I was asking advice on how to keep my hens (well, really...

I have previously gone in to all of that. For the purposes of this post about the girls, the largest area has five hens. There are two adjacent areas, one with two roosters, and one with three roosters. The roosters don't have contact with the hens. I'll take some photos tomorrow but have to...

These photos are from over a year ago except for a few and don't do Chickentopia justice. It's changed a lot. I've since divided the chickens in to three separate runs from the two in the photos (two with roosters and then all the hens together in the larger area). There are two houses...

They are better in some ways. I lasted a week before I took the peepers off of Billie because she was just standing in one place, sulking, not eating well. I made it another week before I took them off Perky because she was hiding in one of the nest boxes acting like she was going to die...

Thanks, Mrs. K. I know what molting looks like. Dulcie had new feathers coming in a few weeks ago, finally popped from their shafts, gorgeous. When I got home, all bloody and torn out. Her tails feathers are always bleeding. That's not molting. My 5 roosters are molting now and never look...

I've had chickens almost 20 years and have never had feather picking and eating problems until the ones I have now. My questions are regarding the five hens that I have together. Three are 2.5 years old and two are 1.5 years old (their babies and the victims of most of the attacks). I...

Well, not that anybody cares, but things are better this morning. Perky isn't attacking Ariel since she's got those dumb plastic glasses on again which will eventually harm her. Ariel's bloody areas are now black instead of red which means no new pecking. I'm putting Vetericyn spray on the...

What do you all think about Billie and Daffy? In order to break them from brooding, I'd have to remove all the nest boxes which means everybody dumps eggs on the ground for two weeks. That's the only way I've broken Daffy before, and then she went back to it a month later. I feel bad for her...