That’s exactly what I’m worried about
I’m guessing by your temp comment you go by Fahrenheit?
In winter we go to -5 Celsius and lower with snow so yeah cold enough to be worried
He used to roost with the chickens until we got a rooster they all get along extremely well but after a fox attack he chose to roost on the top of our garage
We are Australia nsw so winters are cold
I will try your suggestion of feeding him in the evening in the cage x fingers that works
I have a peacock that is a yr old he is free range but won’t go into a shelter when it rains as it is coming closer to winter I’m worried that he will get sick how do I break his habits and get him back in to a caged shelter
My last chick hatched 3 days ago but it is weak and not really growing it only eats if I offer wet weetbix from a spoon
Any ideas why or how to fix this
Thanks to everyone that helped with figuring out my Brahma
But I’m nearly at 21 days my hen has been sitting on her eggs 2 hatched a couple of days ago I wasn’t to worried as I knew she had 2 eggs of her own that she was sitting on before I added 7 extra but I’m worried that she might be more...
He was introduced to my older chickens as a day old in the brooder they watched him grow up I have introduced the new chicks to him the same way he has been watching over them as they grow
I’ll start with what I have in my yard
1 peacock
2 Wyandotte hens
4 lohmann brown hens
1 silkie roo
My silkie roo had 2 silkie hens plus 2 unsexed Brahmas in his lil pack until we had a fox attack the silkie roo was the only survivor in that pack
for fair reasons he was very angry with the...