Mine are just the opposite. Mine are like lazy house cats that just let you reach under and get the eggs out. They only get protective when they are broody and setting on eggs to hatch them. Maybe your pullet is going broody. Mine are not eggs eater.
After reading hundreds of post on this site over the last four months, it seems to me that the issues in whether you can be a moderator on this site or not, lies in your interpretation of the term "Family Friendly". If your idea of Family Friendly is a show like the Jeff Corwin Show, where it...
Your are welcome, but please understand that my statements are based on my limited one year experience with birds from a single line. Troyer has many years of experience and his comments should carry more weight then mine.
My birds are from breeder lines and have no hatchery blood. They are pure bbreds from primarily Zook blood.
Now I did hatch them in an incubator and pen raise them till about 4 months old and that may have something to do with it, but I also raised some Games the same way and they are now...
I my personal experience Cubalayas are not that great for free ranging. I have had my cubas (over 50 birds) free ranging for over a year. They do no venture more then 100 feet from their coup all day and tend to wait around to be feed, even if they are practically starving to death. As far a...
Thanks. He deserves it. He can move 100 pounds of wood chips from one side of his 10 X 10 foot pen to the other in one day. Everyday I have to work with a hoe to spread it all out again.
Here is a little guy that is about 10 months old and weighs a little over 2 pounds. Guess he is a runt. But he looks okay to me.
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