A couple weeks ago I lost my first rooster. I found him dead outside the coop... no blood but all of the feathers had been plucked from his chest and there were bruises the size and shape of beaks. Then tonight since I closed the coop up early I did a head count... all hens accounted for but no...
We have a flock of 20 hens, 3 roosters, and 6 guineas. Everyone free ranges over 5 wooded acres that is over flowing with rollie pollies (pill bugs), ticks, beetles, etc not to mention TONS of greens from all of the ground cover. They are so dependent on their grain food its not even funny. I am...
Someone ditched a rooster out in front of our house. We managed to corral him but now we need to figure out what breed he is. Let me know if you need different pictures.
We are Jessica and Jeremiah; about a year ago we moved to the country and started working towards being self sufficient.
We purchased our first batch of chicks on 3/1/12 and started building our first coop that weekend. We spent a lot of time looking at coops on here to get advice and ideas on...
We got a freak shower/ thunderstorm at home today and we have several month old pullets and keets sitting in a dog kennel outside. It looks like it poured on them. Had i known there was a chance of rain i would have given them better shelter from the weather but all we have had is hot weather so...