We had a pretty bad fox attack the other morning. It got two of our hens completely. It ran off with a third, but we got the fox before it went into the woods. The hen made it but and she doesnt seem to injured but she's staying to herself and not moving around a while lot. The fox also injured...
We have a lot. We have a few quinees, some polish, some silky, some of the Easter Eggers and a lot of the normal regular ones. We are sort of learning as we go. Moved to a home with property back in May and thats the first thing we did!!
Its about a 30 x 30 area thats fenced for them during the day. Then inside this they have 3 seperate coops where they go at night. All three decently sized.
We didn't think we had any when we got him. But now we are realizing as they are growing more we have three others. So 4 out of the 40. Is that too many?
I'm thinking its more the hoarding. I feel like we are having bad luck with the roosters. The first one we had became very aggressive with my daughter and me both and we had to get rid of him. Im thinking we should probably get rid if this one too.. thank you for the info!! :)
We have a silky rooster that is not really an aggressive one and he's so not that big. He has been beating up on a younger silke rooster. This one is missing most of his feathers on his head. Then recently he has been, I guess attacking (have not actually witnessed) our other rooster which is a...