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I’m guessing she is the lead, she looks like a rooster. Has the larger comb and I think she is responsible for picking on my Polish as well. I really don’t love any of these girls being picked at 😢

That’s what I am going to do starting tonight. Which bird should I separate. The bully or the injured nice one?

Hi all, last Saturday was a DAY for my flock. I gave away the rooster (only 16 weeks old) and one of the older (still only 22 weeks old) hens got injured. I’m pretty sure she has a broken toe. I’ve tried my best to balance letting her be inside at night to rest and outside during day with the...

Oh yes. I had a rooster attack me as a child. So I was not thrilled about having one. I keep grabbing this one to give him “loves” and he is less than thrilled LOL!

Thank you. Hubby is slightly attached to the boy, but he literally bit one of the older hens combs yesterday. I’m over the bullying and it really hasn’t even started.

Is it gaining his trust that we need to work on? Or the hens? When you got rid of the rooster, did the separated hens join in with the rest of the flock?

I apologize if this is a stupid question, I’m very new to all of this. We have 15 chickens total. 11 of them are 20 weeks old and 4 easter eggers are 16 weeks old. They have all been together now for 8 weeks. We never wanted a rooster…but of course we ended up with one in the EE group. He is...

Thank y’all for the help. I had been taking the girls out for day trips to the run already and today before I left for work we took them out for the day. This was right at sunrise. Of course then as I’m making my hour long commute I see clouds (not supposed to rain until tomorrow,) I hurriedly...

We do have the apron. The roof does have a slant. I hope to catch rain water for my garden. The hubby is looking at doing something to remove part of the upper wall, the bottomish will be where the nesting box is attached. All of the articles that have been suggested are so helpful. Wish we...

Thank you so much!

The two windows are full size house windows that push fully out and are screened with hardware cloth for ventilation. We are in Aiken, South Carolina and I am by nature hot blooded. I did just finally talk to a friend that raises chickens and send her pics and she agreed with putting them...

LOL! My husband always says I’m a sucker for any animal especially if they are sick or dying. One of our cats was supposedly “blind” when we rescued him. Yep, not so much.

The Golden Comets and Cinnamon Queen are 5 weeks and the Polish and Barred Rock are 4 weeks. I just got word my Easter eggers are hatching :) The whole enclosure is 16’ x 16’. The coop part of it is 4’ x 16’ and the run part is 12’ x 16’. When we are home I will let them out to explore, but...

Hi all, We have just ventured into the world of chickens. I had bantams growing up and have always told my husband I would like more but we were never in a position to do so. A couple of years ago we obtained our dream property and built our dream house and now are finishing up what will...

These are our only (and first) chicks. They’ve been raised together except we had the 2 GC and 1 Cinnamon Queen a week earlier. We are going to be getting 4 easter egger pullets from a friend in a few weeks which I’m sure is a whole different topic. My only concern with moving them is Fri-Mon...