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We are keeping him. We actually ordered the legbars back in February. We ordered the females and 1 male. He was the only boy we planned for. And the egg basket was the reason. We had to drive 4 hours one way to Mississippi to get those chickens. How many pullets do you have in total? Do you keep...

Yes. We plan to remove them by the end of this week or next. The baby doesn't come over often and we never let anyone (especially children) in with the chickens unless we are right there with them. All the good traits sound just like Prince (except the mating because we aren't there yet). He...

We do have plans to re home the roosters. And we also have more chicks planned. We have 11 pullets in a brooder right now. And we have 17 sexed female Australorp hens that will be here tomorrow. I was advised to cancel the order for the chicks, but they had already been mailed. So, we definitely...

Thanks! I can tell we are gonna be besties!!! Lol :) I am actually 52 and my hubby is 51. Our children are all grown but we do have very young nieces that love to visit the chickens. I would hate for her to be attacked like that. How do you recognize a cockerel that is becoming aggressive...

We can't free range them like that unfortunately. We live on 5 acres in the woods, but the area has really been populated around us. What is to be rural farmland has sadly become neighborhoods. I frequently see neighbors complaining on Next Door about loose chickens.

We have hurricanes here though. What do people do with chickens in hurricanes or really bad storms? Our coop is built strong enough to stand up to hurricanes.

Thank you so much! This is an incredible group of people. I don't find culling repugnant. I grew up with chickens and rabbits so been around that. But, I don't eat meat anymore for health reasons. David does and knows he will eventually have to cull but, even if he works up the nerve, we...

It was a concern I had. It may be unfounded. This is our first flock. I was told that the hens would consider him an outsider and it would cause problems. It may have been bad advice.

Thank you - yes all the chickens are roughly the same age. The hens are not quite ready to start laying yet. David and I were talking over Shadrack's advice last night. So, not only do they need to be separated, but completely block the view of the pullets? We knew when we started this venture...

We will be giving away the other 7 as quickly as possible. Keeping them is not only impractical (they take up room for laying hens), but impossible due to aggression. Other than the ones that are already in the brooder and on the way (and cannot be canceled) we have no other orders.

They get along well. I thought that may just be because they are young - but we are new to this. Prince is the king of the roost. Other Roo (our Ameracauna roo) is older by 2 weeks - but doesn't even crow often. They were all born in March. The hens haven't started laying yet, so they aren't all...

We have two roosters, though. We are new to chicken keeping. Is that a ration problem? I thought you needed 10 hens per rooster

That sounds like a horrible life for the hens, honestly.

Hello everyone, we're facing a crisis here at the Taylor Glade, and I'd like to share the situation with you. You can read more about it on this post, but In short, in March, we purchased 10 vent-sexed Australorp hens, but unfortunately, it turns out that 8 of them are actually roosters. So, we...