I have ten birds, nine months old.two are male and get along with each other, in fact the smaller one defers to the larger. Several of the females have bare sore patches on their wings and backs. I assume this is where one or both roosters hold on while mating. I put saddle/aprons on them but...
I have 8 females and two males that are all 7 months old. I wasn’t expecting it this soon but one of the hens has gone broody. I would like to grow the flock but if I let her stay in the nest in the coop the chicks would hatch around thanksgiving. It can get extremely cold here. Am I right in...
I wish I could just add more.This whole venture was supposed to be my way of easing into retirement. I thought Id raise a few chicks so I ordered some from a feed store. how would I go about finding crested birds that I could integrate into my flock?
I would appreciate your thoughts about this since I have not yet butchered one of my own birds. I put the most aggressive cockerel , Roscoe, out in the run and put tiny Zazu in a box where she could come and go as she pleases.
This is inside the 10x10 coop where I sit and watch them sometimes...
I am new to chickens. I have ten 18 week old birds that I have raised from chicks. Two have turned out to be Cockrells that, of course, are becoming cocky. The problem is, my smallest bird, a tiny Polish, seems to get the brunt of their frat boy behavior.
A few weeks ago she started sleeping in...