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I have straw for them and he just hunkers down right inside the door next to the nesting boxes. He used to nest underneath the girls 🙈

I'm afraid he'll fall off😳

Not at all! He has shown his dominance and even the huge BO bows down to him 😆

I have 9 regular hens and a silkie rooster. The hens all roost on their bar but the silkie roosts on the floor. With these unusually cold temps at night, will he be warm enough? He has no one to snuggle with!

So, we have progress! Let them all free range yesterday and Marshmallow (just named him) did not understand going in the big coop and laid down in the run, so I put him in there (assume he just laid on the floor, the roost is high) and this morning he came out raring to go! He was able to...

Lucky you! I'm barely in gardening zone 6 😬 63 and drizzly here; yuck!

I was reading they can get sick if wet because their feathers don't keep the water out and it reaches their skin.

So, it is raining today and I guess these guys cant get wet? I am going to try later when the rain ends and maybe let them free range together, not within the confines of the run. And, he is 6 months old, so not getting any bigger? He is barely the size of my smallest EEs.

I just want to put him in my pocket he is too cute!!!!

He's super dopey. He was with a bunch of full size hens so I thought it would be OK. My girls can be mean. I've had to remove 2 hens who were being picked on. One I thought was going to die.

Oh take her out! I could do that but I don't want to upset the whole dynamic. I read about their soft skulls or something and now I'm just worried that hes gonna get brained to death. But it didn't look like he was going to get pecked like that it was more like they were cockfighting.

Yes, I have a small coop in our run for hens hatching chicks, et cetera, and that's where he is now. They can see him.

I just got him last night and put him in with the girls this morning. At first they didn't really notice him and he did that wing drag thing they do with hens and then my Lavender BO fought him! I was so worried he would get hurt I took him out and now he's in a coop in the run protected from...

My love got the better of me and now I have an adorable 6 month old silkie cockerel who is being attacked by humongous hens. I have him separated now but will this ever work out?

I'd say about 2 weeks or so. I was thinking that what he ate just expanded and eventually he didn't have room for food. I have had other chickens that just died for no apparent reason so, you're right, who knows. I certainly couldn't ask my neighbor to cut him open so I'll never know. I love...

Earlier this month I bought some pellets for the run because it was pure mud from all the rain we were getting. My rooster ate them right away (thinking it was huge feed?!) and he died a few days ago. He was about 2 and healthy afaik. My neighbor was watching them for us and she said he was...

Shoot they're covered in snow now. They were a few inches long.

Squirrel?

I looked at the foot print chart and I don't see these. It was small and able to get in the run, which is really just to keep hawks and racoons out.

I guess I can rule out all the others but skunk!