We definitely don't need a male - we were thinking we wouldn't mind one because it's fun to hatch out eggs and he's really handsome. We had to rehome a BR rooster who was too aggressive already, so I completely see your point - we should probably take him to the nice lady with the ginormous...
I have 12 6-8 week old chicks who have been brooded together from the beginning. They are now in a chicken tractor type of coop inside my large pen where my 7 grown hens (EE's, BO, BR, Australorps) and ducks and geese live, so that the grown ladies can see them but not get them. One of them...
Hi, I'm brand new here, and pretty new to raising chickens.
We started out with 3 pullets from a local farm that we were told were 4-5 months old and would lay any day - that day has still not come. They are a bossy, mean-ish BO, a really sweet BR, and a Black Australorp we call Voldemort who...