We have a 6 month old Ancona hen named Madam Peep that we are still trying to figure out if she is a roo or a hen. She crows excessively... for the past three or four days I have heard her crowing on average for about five minutes around the same time every morning, 8-10. I'm just wondering if...
Hi! I am a relatively new chicken owner (we got all of our girls *and suspected boy* in February.) Our coop is a converted old shed. We use wood shavings as bedding and have six chickens. I'm just wondering how often we should clean out the coop (both partially and completely.) We live in the...
We're worried that our Ancona may be a rooster... she's the one nearest the nesting box furthest left in this picture. Multiple times we have heard her crowing excessively in the morning hours and she's extremely assertive (slightly aggressive) with our corgis. Whenever our female corgi goes...
I read one of the "sticky" posts concerning pullets not laying, but it only really addressed Fall/Winter issues. We bought our four young pullets (1 Ameraucana...hope I didn't butcher that name... 1 Black Australorp, 1 Red Sex Link, and 1 Ancona...that we suspect to be a rooster currently) in...