I have a beautiful silver leghorn rooster that I can no longer keep; he is mildly aggressive but turns "chicken" mighty quick when confronted with someone wearing Home Depot orange gloves or a hay rake. He was hatched late last August. He is also pretty good about not crowing before day-break...
OK, all of you experienced flock masters - I need some advice here! And thanks in advance! My two little Silver Leghorns (1 hen, 1 roo) are now about 3 months old. I have them in a separate run with a large dog kennel which serves as their "coop" for the time being. In this run I also have a...
OMG - all of you who have posted your pics of the beautiful coops that you built have GOT to go check out the $100,000 "Chicken Palace" in this year's "Fantasy N-M Gift" catalog! Yes, that is not a typo - ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CLAMS - for a chicken coop! And frankly, I think many BYCers have...
Well, I posted on this subject a week or so ago and said that I thought I had an ee cockerel and an ee pullet...we are now at just 6 weeks old and I am beginning to have my doubts as to the male, who has some very non-ee traits. A couple of folks from my first post thought they might be...
Got these two from the local feed store - SURE they're "Araucanas" just like the 20-year old kid told me-LOL! Pretty sure I have a girl and a boy EE, but anyone wanna reinforce my opinion on that? They're about 4.5 weeks which I know is early but really - the comb, the baldness and the brown...
Hello Everybody,
Have been cruisin' the site for awhile now and picked up lots of good information so thought it was high time to jump in and join the flock - so to speak! Started out a City Girl but we were on of those crazy 70s families that went "back to nature" while I was still a young...