Right now we only have one Roo and he is the offspring of the one that was mean to the family. The one we have now is perfectly fine around the family it's just the two sussex that he's attacking.
3 years ago we got our first chickens we started out with five Golden Wyandotte all hens and all the yard was quiet! The next year we went out and bought three more, this time Speckled Sussex. We had some issues getting all eight of the chickens to get along but eventually they all figured it...
I was thinking broody as well when my wife first told me about it but she's not laying on any eggs, in fact I don't think she is laying eggs either. We do not have a rooster and I have read that when you don't have one, a hen will tend to fill the role of a rooster. So I thought maybe that was...
We have 5 Wyandotte hens about 18 months old now. We're getting 3-4 eggs a day and they seem to be very happy. They are roost in their coup at night and roam our 1 acre piece of land through out the day. We have noticed though that one hen lays under the coup all day and doesn't move from...