Sometimes my chickens (I’ve only heard my Easter eggers do it) will make a strange gobbling noise that sounds like a turkeys but a bit faster a slightly higher pitched, what is this noise and what does it mean
I have some barbed wire in my yard I forgot to put up, it was probably that, or some briars, I put some salve on it and made sure none that of the other chickens tried to peck at it
My rooster (which I think is around 3 months old) has a small black streak, that also looks like a tear on one of his wattles, it’s also swollen, he acts normal and crows normal, is it just a bug bite or is it some kind of disease, none of the other chickens in the flock have this
I have a young rooster (I think 2 or 3 months old) and he seems to be mating with the older hens, I thought they started that at a later age, unless he’s just mimicking the older rooster (which got killed by a fox unfortunately, he did put up a fight and the hens were all safe though), the hen...
She (or he maybe) looks like many cream legbars I’ve seen, she has a black streak that goes back and ends at her back, except she doesn’t have a crest, is she mixed with something else or do some just not have crests, I’ll get a picture in a little bit
Yeah but I definitely wasn’t going to hit from where I was, and I didn’t want her grabbing another one of the chickens, i could try and find her den, it probably isn’t too far away
I did, it was a fox, a red fox trying to feed her babies since it’s daytime when she comes, ive been sitting at my bedroom window with a gun waiting for her, she snuck up about an hour ago but I didn’t have a good angle to shoot her from so I just shot into the air to run her off, she was also...