We recently moved to some acreage and were stunned to find three pea fowl (2 males 1 female) roaming wild with a flock of wild turkeys. Its been a rough winter and both males are gone leaving the female alone with the turkeys. When there were three, the turkeys were just fine with the pea fowl...
So, this is a first for us. We have 4 chickens. No rooster. Only one hen old enough to lay. She usually lays one egg every day for 3 days then takes a day off. She hasn't left her nesting box for days except an occasional drink/food. We had to argue with her for 2 or 3 of her eggs and now no...
ok, here's one more I need help with! been told its a Belgian D'Uccle (bearded). It's so cute I cant stand it! but if its a cockerel, it cant stay at my house. :(
Maybe I'm rushing things? A have a young pullet (17/18 weeks) and two chicks (not sure gender yet) who get along great! Our neighbor purchased the mother of our pullet sane time we did. He had trouble with her getting picked on so bad and said she's such a SWEET thing he wanted to get her out...
A few weeks ago we purchased two pullets from a farm. They were BEST FRIENDS! always together, eat, sleep, scratching.......then turns out one is a rooster. We can't keep him in our neighborhood so my Mom is taking him. Our little hen doesn't function without him. if they are separated she...
Very new to raising chickens. Got two babies from my nephews classroom then bought twopullets about 16 weeks old. One turned out to be a rooster. Our neighbor also bought done new hens from the same farm, one being the mother of our for sure little hen. She was getting so beat up by his current...
This is Gladys, our Barred Rock/ Bantam (?) I'm guessing we're at about 16 weeks. Told she was a hen by a fantastic 80 year old chicken farmer. not doubting the expertise, but Gladys has started a crow-like sound in the morning when everyone gets let out into the run. not a cockadoodledoo, but a...