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My girls have free range access to a run we built in our rose garden. It has roses (well what's left of the roses), redwood bark and dirt and lots and lots of wild birds. I'm getting more than I ever did from my bird feeder. My question - I know wild birds can carry mites and lice and I'm...

from wild birds? The run where my chickens free range is a favorite place of little sparrows and finches and peewees. I have no way of keeping them out of the area but just want to know what I should be aware of. Thanks!

I went to a ranch today that has a very large flock of chickens to see about them taking my roo. They take all chickens that are offered to them and so have a large number of roos (interestingly enough, most seemed to be banty roos). The chickens all looked healthy to my untrained eye. There...

When can I expect him to stop being so darn randy? The two older hens hate it when he tries to mate them. To the point there has been blood injuries. I'm wondering if there's any hope for him or does he need to find a new place to live? He's 7 months old. Other than being very aggressive when...

So I have very spoiled chickens. We had a new deck built and our backyard landscaped so it is no longer available to the chickens to free range in. But I can't just have my girls and boy cooped up in the run/pen that we built so I'm having the people who installed our fence install a lattice...

I'm having construction done on the back yard (building a chicken run among other things) and my older dog was upstairs barking constantly and the rooster was out front crowing. The dogs' barking drove me NUTS until I got her to shut up but his crowing doesn't bother me at all!

They take roosters (and hens) and I may leave my boy with them. She said they don't eat them but they have a large pen that they keep them all in. I'm going to go visit them and see what I think. Any questions I should ask? http://www.hosannahomes.org/

I need to integrate a 7 month old rooster back with his flock of 3 hens (he was accidental). I removed him because he was too hormonal and was roughly mating the hens and two were injured because of it. He currently is living in a large wire dog kennel and I have let him out a few times with...

I have a 7 month old roo who is too randy to be in my smallish coop/pen with the three ladies. I want to build a tractor or something similar for him that we can keep in the larger run we have. Any and all suggestions are appreciated. He currently is in a wire dog kennel that I can move to the...

Masala has started crowing all day. May take a little break but then starts back up again. He crows at 4am, he crows at 5 at 6 and then all day. This only started when the hormones hit. Does this mean he's going to crow like this forever or will he shut up when he matures? He's driving me nuts...

Why would a rooster peck a hen and fluff out his neck feathers so they look like ruff around his neck. He pecked one of my hens through a fence and caused her comb to bleed even though she was crouching down submissively. She ended up running away and hiding in a corner even though he couldn't...

Serious question. I know they can crow as an alarm, as a challenge, etc. My boy crows all the time. It's like he likes to hear the sound of his own voice. He crows at night, in the morning, and off an on all day long. He's almost 8 months old and so is going through hormone surges, but dang...

on their chickens? I'm thinking of putting the cream on a closed wound my hen has. It works on me - does it work on chickens?

It's not his fault, he's a good rooster. We just don't have the space for him. This decision SUCKS because he's a good boy who is just being what nature intended but we didn't want a rooster and got him by accident and my girls come first. Two of them are now living indoors with cuts on their...

I have a 7.5 year old non-aggressive Easter Egger rooster available for free to a good home. He's a good boy, takes care of 'his' hen but we just don't have enough room for him and he's too randy for the older females.

I have a hen who has a largish cut on her neck. Happened when the too frisky rooster tried to mate her and she stuck her head out of the run fence and I think by jerking her head up cut her neck on the wires. Yes this is another hen with the same issue the first one had but this one is much...

I'm sure people here make them. I need at least three sturdy ones (maybe more for swapping out). 2 for full grown BPR and 1 for a 7.5 month old EE who seems on the smallish side. Canvas would probably be best.

My 7.5 month old roo who had already injured a hen through over-eager dominance-showing and mating put another one into the ER today. I heard her squawking first thing this morning and by the time I'd gotten down there she had a huge gash on the back of her neck from sticking her head through...

My hen was the victim of an overly randy rooster and lost some feathers on her head and got some cuts and gashes. I have her isolated inside the house and the wounds aren't bleeding and are healing well. She still has no feathers obviously. How soon can I put her back out with the roo and...

My hen was the victim of an over-eager and clumsy rooster. By the time I got to her, he had pulled out feathers on the back of her neck/head and bloodied her comb. I just noticed that she also has a large gash under the feathers. It's about an inch long and bloody but not dripping blood...