Hello everyone, we live in Southeast Michigan and we have 2 roosters and can only keep one, our boy milton is a very nice rooster, he is a new hampshire rooster, and has been raised since he was a baby, we would love to see him go to a good home rather than the dinner plate.
Please let me know...
Hello everyone! we are located in Waterford and currently have 2 roosters and only want to keep one, so we are looking to give him a new home,
we would LOVE to trade him and purchase a couple of hens about the same age if possible.
We believe he is a New Hampshire, and both of our roosters are...
So our isas are all about 2 years old but they are mega aggressive to our buff orpington our americana and a couple of our rhode islands. Some stuff I have read said this is an aggressive breed while others say these birds are very friendly. Today I caught one of the isas on top of our buff...
Hello everyone!
Today we became the proud owners of 5 new babies! ( lady I nanny for got them from school where they to a life cycle lesson)
I think we have 2 buffs, 2 plymouth rocks and either a rhode island or an americana
I think we have two plymouth rocks ( first two black ones) and...
I have been told taking her out of the flock will just make it worse when she is reintroduced, so do we just let the pecking order ( if this is what is occuring) to continue ?
Can they reestablish a pecking order after one has been established and in effect for over a year ?
We're feeding them the same feed we have been feeding them since we got them a year and a half ago ( crumble from tractor supply)
PLUS we give them scraps almost everyday ( veggie scraps etc)
Ya, no parasites present, so that's why were confused, poor sue used to be on top of the pecking...
Hello everyone, we have 11 hens, Sue, a buff orpprington, used to be way up at the top, of the pecking order, she used to pick on our smaller and younger isa browns, well the isa's have molted and grown up, and now poor Sue is on the bottom of the pecking order, she looks terrible, missing...
No blood, just pinning her down and chasing her, we've tried the egg with mustard, ours ate it, tried dish soap also they ate that as well, they have food 24/7 so I dont know why shes eating them. (Whomever it is)
Hello everyone, so we have 11 hens, 4 Rhodes island reds 4 isa browns, 2 buff orpingtons and 1 Americana,
Well our poor americana, Eleanor, has been picked on since her sister passed last spring, its not super terrible I think shes just low woman on the pecking order,
however these past few...
Right now all of our ladies are just getting back to laying eggs after molting so I am not sure about egg laying. She was laying eggs fine all summer. She eats fine she does miss a lot of the goodies we give them every morning because she's the last one out. We have two long roosting poles so...
Hello Everyone, We have 11 chickens and one of our ladies acts very strange every morning when we let them out! She is the last one to jump off the roosting pole and walks oddly ( like kind of sideways) and has her head turned to the side, for the first 5 minutes she is up every day, after that...
Hi everyone, we are located in Waterford, and we are looking for a place to get Feed other than tractor supply, over memorial day weekend we were up in Gaylord and went to the neighbors and she said she gets feed for her chickens at $30 for 200 lbs! That's such a deal! way better than we pay at...
Thanks, how much do you pay if you don't mind me asking,
we are actually out that way about once a month so maybe could work out.
Anyone else have any other opitions they use ??
Hi everyone! looking for a farm/ mill that might sell chicken layer feed down in SE michigan ( we are in Waterford) at a better price than tractor supply when we were up in gaylord over the weekend we visited a neighbor up there who said she gets 200 pounds for 30 bucks! so we are hoping to...