Hello members,
I am a city chick turned homebound rural animal care provider. The older I get the more my home life represents that of an earlier century. Originally, I adopted 6 hens from a client who sold her home to go into assisted living care almost 9 years ago now. Then I tried out my...
I’ve had laying hens and an occasional rooster on and off for the last six or seven years... But recently we got an extraordinarily broody hen and decided to let her sit on her small batch of three eggs. We currently do have a rooster. He mounts most of the hens every morning so I figured that...
Last week I went out and purchased a mixture of 8 pullets, 2 each Aricana, Buffinton, Rhode Island Reds, and Ausilogs (I think..) plus one 6 week old Rooster, (light beige color, breed unknown but probably a Buffinton.)
Anyway, They seem to have been getting along nicely, but a few hours ago...