my chickens all started laying in the past few weeks. they all arent quite regular yet though. so last night I walk out to the coop to check the nesting boxes and find a HUGE egg. I mean its got to be 3x normal size. So we crack it open for breakfast and...plop, another normal size egg drops...
are males the only ones that do the "buk buk buk bukaaahhh" song? I have a rooster that does this and have noticed a younger little girl doing the same thing. When one starts the other joins in.None of the others do it so I was wondering if its just a copy cat thing or maybe the one I think is a...
My golden wyandotte rooster is a little on the aggressive side with the girls. we recently have been trying to get two groups of slightly different ages together. So far so good, however... the same rooster seems to really "like" one of my production reds that I believe is male. Is this normal...
My rooster has recently "discovered" the girls. He gets a hold of their feathers and they screech like crazy. The group is around 16 wks old. Should I be looking for eggs soon?
I am still not totally convinced that what I believed were 2 hens are truly roos. The "rooster" of the same breed had a very different comb. But these two cock-a-doodle-do. I have read that in the absence of a rooster, hens will crow. Is this true? One of them crowed even when "rooster" was...
We decided to get chickens after we got hooked on the fresh eggs we were getting from a co-worker. So we got 6 chicks and soon got 6 more because we were having so much fun. We had to put on down because he got mareks disease...so sad...he was the most loveable. Now we are just waiting for...
We were told one thing when we got these chickens and have since learned different things through research. We had what we believed to be a rooster (based on his comb was very different then the others) but we had to put him down due to Mareks disease. He was our most loveable chicken! The two...