Socialize the dog well, with people and animals, and with good training you won't have problems. Socializing is really the most important part. There is truly nothing better than to have a nice, gentle dog.
Birds can store and control passage of excrement. Whomever has said otherwise have had no experience with birds. A mated pair of pigeons for example take turns incubating their eggs. Each parent will sit for about 12 hours and hold their waste until the other parent comes to do their duty. Once...
Be extra vigilant because it can happen again. Count your child fortunate the roo missed the eye by inches. I have a year old niece who walks among our huge brahma roos. You must breed and select for temperament otherwise they will be out of control and risk endangering your family.
Our RIR lays every single day. Sometimes in emergencies when we have to lock the coop up and some of the birds are stuck outside for the night, the RIR will lay two eggs the next day in their favorite nest box. Our brahmas lay about 5 eggs out of a week and some of them are very large eggs. In...
They are the greatest breed in the world Friendly, funny, broody if needed, ours usually lay eggs every other day but sometimes they lay daily, they do well in a coop but love to free range. They are also very tender and juicy.
My husband built me an incubator and it has worked wonderfully. It holds 24 eggs, we put eggs in as they are laid and so far 12 has hatched. Built with love, I would not trade it for any incubator in the world.
We have two brahma roosters and they do not crow much. When they do it's a low, deep crow around 5-6am. We used to have a white leghorn and he would go throughout the day, squeeky and high pitched.
Hello everyone, just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Angel from South Florida. Heard about this site in a magazine, and since we have chickens the two added up and so we are here. We also have a great white cuddly dog and everyone gets along.