I found a guy in the classifieds who is selling hens that are about the same age as mario, and he'll take my roos, (my husband it tired of killing chickens) so I think we'll do that, and hope that the new ones get along ok with mario.
I wouldn't be able to get new chicks until mid august since we have vacations coming up soon, Mario was born early april, so they'd be 4 or 5 months apart. Would Mario be okay alone that long? She'd be alone at least a couple of months longer than that too since I wouldn't want to put the...
Bummer. That's what we were afraid of.
We were hoping that little jerry was the only roo, and my husband "took care" of him last night, then this morning we were woken with crowing again.
Our chickens are kind of "on the sly" so we really can't have roosters crowing.
Any ideas on...
We got two RIR's and two araucana's from the feed store last april- I'm afraid that three of the four are roosters. Front to back- Little Jerry, Mr. Gordon, then the white aracauna (EE?) is Fred and the brown one is Mario (I know, we've cursed them with their names...) Any Ideas. We know that...