Recent content by JohnSteader

Well I do have many tractors, different sizes but none with more than 9 hens. Yes it would be easier to just move the roo but he’s in the largest tractor with only 6 hens and the hens I want him with is in a smaller tractor and there’s 9 of them. I don’t want to mess with any moral of any of the...

I keep my chickens in movable tractors. In order to keep happy, healthy chickens I can only keep so many birds in each. I only have one rooster and I want him with a fresh set of hens. Do I move the hens or the rooster ? I was thinking of moving the hens in order to rearrange bird amounts in a...

He never mated when introduced. He just put 1 wing halfway out and walked a circle around every hen

We eat eggs everyday and I have cameras on them 24/7 hence my question of when will he start

Im good with that knowledge. I’ve never had only a flock of hens and added a rooster. I’m good with all other aspects

They were already laying before we got him

How long does it typically take for a newly introduced rooster to start breeding with the hens ? Now I know y’all will have questions so I’ll start to answer some now: He was just introduced to the hens 3 weeks ago. The hens are younger than him as the hens are 8 months old and he is over a...

Thanks to everyone who helped with this. Come to find out, all I needed was a little snow. haha The chick has settled down and the flock has accepted her.

Barreds not bernies, sorry. i was in a hurry

ok. sounds like a plan. like i said ive had chickens all my life and ive never seen this before. at first i wondered if it was because theyre the easter chickens but then they stopped bothering the one and only bothered the other then i started to wonder if it was just because it never takes a...

the hen house is 3 feet by 3 feet and their yard is 12 feet by 12 feet.

no its not just one its all of the older hens getting at the one that has behavior issues. flail like its head is cut off is the only way i could think to describe it. shes in constant panic mode. soon as her feet hit the dirt with the other hens shes screaming, running and jumping around like...

no, they are not laying yet. theyre only 8 weeks older than the 2 babies introduced

weve tried completely seen and able to get face to face and weve tried keeping them in the hen house with food and water. last night for an hour I introduced them (again) for an hour. they chased them around for about 45 minutes but left them alone for the remaining 15. dark is basically about...

and as I just found out its only 1 baby chick they harass. could it be that its the only one that flails around like someone cut its head off?