Thank you that is great advice! I have been very wary of letting my daughters 1 and 3 around the roosters. The plan is to eat the roosters. I think they are causing too much chaos for our hens. They still haven’t gotten out of the coop in a full week.
We do have a separate pen but it doesn't have an indoor option. We separated the male that was the most of the trouble maker for a day and we noticed everyone was more calm but the hens still didn't leave the coop. I think it was because they could still hear him they suspected he would still...
First question here! Okay so we have 13 chickens who are about 16 weeks old. Of those we have 3 that are roosters and 10 that are hens. We also have 13 chicks that are about 5-6 weeks old now. The babies were integrated into the flock very nicely with of course some pecking and some hens keeping...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am new to chickens however my husband and his family are not! We got our first batch of baby chicks in March 2023 (13 chicks). We raised them and added them to our chicken space and we were given 13 more baby chicks. We are set to...
