I have been trying to get a broody mama for some time, but it just didn't seem to work out with moving them. Now I have one, and don't have to move it, and I just want to make sure I don't need to do anything else to keep her sitting. (I'm kind of paranoid now after all that's happened)
I found a little sparrow fledgling while trimming hedges, and I looked all around for its nest, but I could not find it. It seemed lost, and I nearly cut it to pieces, but I saw it in time. I brought it home, but I don't know how to raise it. I have a little house for it, but I need to figure...
He should come out just fine, our rooster used to be the bottom of every pecking order, even the hens, and they picked on him a lot. He even got a bald spot on his back. He's just great now, though.
Yeah, I see. We have a
black cochin who is huge (large fowl) and also right now has the hens all to himself(lucky fowl) XD Nobody of the other roosters ever tried messing with him, even though they were not bantams. He is really sweet, though.
We actually have a goose and he has scared off hawks countless times. The thing about this is, though, he grew up with the chickens and bonded with them. He doesn’t do anything Bad with them like try to mate them because our roosters keep him in his place. Roosters though if they actually like...
Normally it’sa good idea to have about
Normally it’s a good idea to have 11-12 hens per one rooster, but @sourland is right, and you need to cull him, probably.
We had three roosters, and one didn’t fight at all. The other two ( golden Wyandotte and Buff Orpington) fought a lot though. The Wyandotte beat the Orpington pretty bad, so We just picked the one we wanted to keep and sent the Wyandotte to my sister. It was great after that.
My sister-in-law has (I mean, had) ducks, a few weeks ago she finally got rid of them because they were more work than worth, and those five ducks were a bundle of trouble! XD The younger 3 would go down the ditch to the neighbors property and stay there at night, and it was a pain in the neck...
The white one looks like a White Leghorn, the yellow and black is a Golden Wyandotte, the black and white speckled looks like a barred rock, the fourth pic looks like an ISA brown, and the sixth seems like a Buttercup, easter egger, or Whiting true green XD! They all can look very similar, so I...