Recent content by grandma54

Training lots of training I agree, i would suggest to tide up dogs while your flock is roaming with you by their side and very time you see one of them jump towards them you reprimand them. I have two dogs with no experience of having hens around and now my flock come up to the dog food and eat...

no i didn't know i had to, should i take him to the vet.

i just bought a rooster and i was thinking of keeping him locked up for a couple of weeks so he can get used to him new home and come back once i let him out during the day. My husband said it wasn't necessary since we have hens already that come in at dark and that the rooster would follow...

thank you i will look at it.

i was recently given a pair of peacocks. not sure what to feed them, they told me kale and dog food but they don't seem to like the dog food. they like the kale and I've given them shredded carrot and apple, they like it some what. i bought some food for game-birds it doesn't look like they...

thank you, i will move the hen to the nest box and see what happens. yes i think while she was out of her nest the other hen jumped in to lay her egg. i have marked them to keep an eye on the ones she is nesting on but i think i probably need to build a separate area for her. Thank you all...

i have five hens and a rooster, one hen has sat on her egg and given me a baby chick three months ago. now she is sitting on three eggs but one of the other hens sat on the eggs, only to give me an egg and then got off. mean while the mama hen that was sitting on them has started to sit in the...