You'll be great with 11 hens. I need to have help to build a bigger coop so I can get more. I only had 4 hens at the beginning hawks got 2 of them. I can't let mine run free unless I am there because of hawks, coyotes, bobcats and mountain lions. Never saw the mountain lion but did see...
I only have 2 hens and am amazed they aren't dead!! One hen has no feathers on her back and she is really the mean one. One is absolutely gorgeous and seems to keep away from him. Strange. All of a sudden they quit laying eggs the last 2 days or snakes are eating them on me. Not sure.
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He is actually enormous and sorry you live in Conneticut as I am in ARizona an he has demolished one of my hens she has no feathers on her back anymore the other one is still beautiful think she knows how to get away from him. He is probably close to 11 pounds. Getting a little upity some days...
I have 4 chickens that I have raised from babies, one is a light brahama and they are all 5 months old now. Waiting for eggs to start. But me too this morning I discovered that my light brahama is a rooster. His first cockadoodle this morning sounded like a sick cough. I didn't want a...