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3 month old Golden-Laced Cochin bantam rooster. Just starting to crow :-) Beautilful plummage Can email more pics - see profile pic for current pic Used to being handled by children - very gentle

For short trips (3 days or less) we make sure water is filled up, and give lots of extra food). More than that and we need a sitter. We leave the door to the run open so teh girls can go out and in as needed. the run is completely enclosed, as we have lots of predators.

Mine like worms, and other insects from the garden./

Nice coop:-) I like the roof, do they still have enough shade inside?

We got new chicks this year, and have kept them separated form the older girls by some plastic chicken wire. The chicks are now 3 months old, how long til we can let them together? Some of teh chicks are bantams, I am hopeful that the bantams will hold their own against the bigger chickens (they...

I love happy chickens noises. Ours are most noisy when theywant our attention, or want to get out into the yard toplay and scratch.

Been reading about them for a while, found 2 people at school who raise chickens, learned details from them.

Nice photo

We are in Littleton, CO. We have 3 full grown girls - New Hampshire Red, an Araucauna, and a Partridge Rock. 5 chicks - 1 Australorp, 1 Speckled Sussex, 3 Golden-Laced Cochin Bantams. One of our bantams is a rooster, and he needs a new home. I can't figure out how to post a pic, so he is in my...

We have lots o cover, but I still worry about big birds. The hawks will sit on a telephone post next to the run and just watch teh chickens (in the run). We also have owls that hang out nearby at dusk. No casualties yet, we make sure all chickens are in at dusk, and don't let them out unattended.

My city allows 3 (or 4, unclear) animals, including dogs, cats and chickens. We have 2 cats, 3 grown chickens, and just got 5 new chicks.