Thank you we do have roosters ( we have 4 rhode islands, 3 bantams hens, 3 bantam roosters( one a 5 months). They are all family and Buster the drake is sort of running the roost. He seem a bit depressed this morning looking for Daisy( the peking hen we lost) luckily I don't work today so I can...
We had a female and male Peking duck, always raised with the chickens. Yesterday was beautiful and they all free roamed in the afternoon. Ducks had a great time in the ditches and running with the chickens. I noticed the female duck was having trouble getting in and out of the run, it has about...
We just started raising chickens and a couple of ducks this last spring. It has been a learning process and very fulfilling . In October we realized that our Bantam hens had been hiding eggs. We thought because they were young they were only giving us one egg a day, between the three. we placed...
We have 5 Bantam, Dutch we think but coloring more like welsummer, 2 roosters and 3 hens. Love your story, ours are characters also, lately one rooster seems to be questioning my intentions he sneaks up on me, trying to attack. Working on this problem as well as your, find the eggs, found 2 in...
We purchased 6 Pekings this spring, tractor supply, about a month ago found one white egg, not with the hens(chickens) eggs, on the floor. we were not sure but thought more were drakes than hens. the drakes kept mounting the other 2, had a very hot day and found one dead when i got home from...
it was in the 80's today but it has been that temp before. the amount of female to drakes was the way it worked out, weren't sure what they were when purchased. the run is fenced and a foot of fencing in the ground, also fencing over the top, just had a fear it was not secure enough. 12 foot by...
Came home to find a female Peking duck dead in the coop,when I went to let them out. They share the coop with our chickens. The male ducks have been very aggressive lately, we think there is 3 female and three male. it was hot today,and they were let out a little later because of work, I am not...
This is the first coop we built, for the boys. They needed more room, since they have outgrown the boxes in the bathroom. A little hard to see but there is room to the back with two doors. This way they can all run around and get out of each others way. Ducks and chicks doing well, 4 weeks old...
We just got our chicks and ducklings 1 week ago. The preparing was not as well planned, as I wanted, husband jumped right in. So now I have them in my back bathroom, turned colder, so the barn plan is on hold. In the process of making a coop, with Cliff working lots of overtime, it is going...