feral chickens

Greetings from north central Florida. I’m a single mom with a 16 year old son at home being homeschooled and a 21 year old son at university. I have an apparently feral rooster who has taken residence in my yard. I have many questions, as I’ve never kept chickens nor been around them much. I’ve...

Hi. Name's Alex. He/him/they/them. I have Autism. I'm excellent at math and science, kinda good at psychology (because of its scientific nature), and relatively savvy at memorizing random vocabulary words and diagramming sentences. (Pretty much, I made high grades on my tests in school.)...

I keep hens in Florida but own a rental property in the cayman islands. There is very little standing water but feral chickens all over the place. On a hot day they are walking around panting searching for water. My hens have such a great life compared to these poor things. I don’t think they...

Aloha! This is probably a bit of a unique problem, but any help is appreciated. My family decided to get some laying hens this year, and have had a hard time finding a local breeder who's got any. While we were waiting for something to come through, we thought we'd try to catch some feral...

Two years ago, someone dropped off two roosters in my neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the past two years, my family and I have fed and cared for these roosters on a daily basis. Unfortunately, one of the roosters earlier this year had a leg injury and died. We are currently feeding the one...

Hello! Let me first say that I believe this is the best place to ask this, but not 100% sure. Anyways: I am trying to find the best breed(s) That do well in an almost feral setting in northern climates. This may seem weird, but I kinda want to experiment with an open coop that I hope they roost...

I just rescued 4 feral chicks from their squalid living conditions in a ghetto neighborhood. They are the size of the 3 day old chicks I get from the local feed store, however they are starting to get feathers so I'm not sure how old they are. They are probably small for their age as they have...

Aloha, We adopted a days old feral chick that had wandered into our yard in September. A few days later my roommate bought a week-old Silkie chick to keep our little Peep company. We're looking for some help sexing the chickens. The feral flock that Peep comes from is made of 4 black hens...

This may be a redundant thread but for the past two days I've been researching through the messageboard and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. My wife and I are stationed in Oahu, Hawaii. We found an abandoned baby chick in front of our house and noticed it had trouble walking and...

About 2 months ago, I was walking along the edge of the woods on my property and I spooked off what I thought was a lone wild turkey. I heard flapping and frantic clucking which I've heard before when I walk up on them roosting before dusk. I've seen dozens of wild turkeys around here and didn't...

Okay I think this is the right place to post this. I've been looking at all the forums for thirty minutes trying to figure it out. Anyways I'm thinking of hatching some of our free ranging hens eggs. I want to raise them to be Wild. We have nine acres of land that are mostly predator free...