Our hens all passed over the last yr from old age. I was caring for my mom who has since passed and we are ready to add 6-8 four month old hens. However, we have a 2 yr old rooster. He wore the old girls down to the point they would hide from him! I have two questions.
1) how long should we keep...
We are stumped! When dusting for mites and treating with net tex because we began having serious bald bum issues we found every bird (chickens) is losing feathers badly. We found no mites, but to be safe we changed all bedding and cleaned the coop. We then used powdered 5% seven dust on...