This little one came w 75 Red rangers meat birds a friend got - I took the little more yellow runt and a regular reddish bird . The runt is active and healthy looking but not growin a lot and looks different . Runt or bantam ? Don’t know why they’d put one oddball in w meat birds but they sent...
I use that one. I actually use sand in summer and add that on top for winter to compost in the coop. W grass clippings and leaves too in winter time . Worked great. As long as not cedar it’s good to my knowledge
I have a string of Christmas lights in their run for night for cuteness and they seem to Iike that . They sleep outside in warm weather on a roost enclosed in a kennel w roof and electric fence. As for in the coop…do they like to read in there ? Might need a light for that 😉
I have the same exact chick 3 weeks old today and am thinking welsummer for mine- came in rare breed from Hoover. Unless some olive egger or ....not sure .
If it is a good shelter he should have been neutered and checked by the vet. Keep separate for a bit to check him and also because you’ll have to introduce them before just saying “ say hello to my little friend !”
I thought I had a Polish hen and I have a bantam D’Uccle rooster- well they are best friends but they seem to have started fighting this week and she’s kicking his royal butt! I dont know if he’s trying to mate or if she is really a rooster and they’re fighting . They sit together quietly and...
I literally pulled a dead baby chickadee bird out of my leghorns mouth like a bad dog who ate my lunch! “Drop it!” And pried his beak open. Neck broken . Ugh
My chickens will run to me if I have any fruit in my hands- raspberry and blackberries make them come the second they even think I have one ! Try treats !