My chickens are out of control! They will go wacko if I enter the room. And if I would like to pick one up it take about ten minutes to catch it. How can I get my chickens to be more calm around people?
Speckled eggs are perfectly normal. You just don't see those eggs in the store because they are pulled off the "assembly line". But I think they look really fun. But you usually don't use them in an incubator because they have a lower hatching rate.
Colored rangers or, Freedom rangers are what I think are the best. The Cornish Roasters I think are sad. They are breed to grow extremely fast and eat like crazy. If you are a new timer it is so much easier to to the Freedom rangers. When we did them they were bigger than the average...
I think it would be a fox. It could not have been a weasel they only eat the neck. It could have also been a hawk that carried it to a different place also. It sounds like a evil bugger that killed them.
Whenever I ask someone this question they always tell me all about the grooming for my chickens in the fair. But i would like to know about how I can train my chicken for the judging in the fair and if i should keep my chickens in a crate before hand to make them more comfortable while they are...