I have a 18 week old rooster and I went out there to see him basically standing on her and grabbing her by the comb! Is he trying to mate with her or is he fighting? She was having none of it...she was standing up tall, feathers sticking out and trying to fight him! What should I do?
Hi everyone! Not sure whether this is a boy or a girl. I was adamant it was a girl until this week when it started looking like it had a roo head! He or she is 15 weeks old....the thing that confuses me is the tail. The other boys all have pointy tails (that's right isn't it?) and really red...
My chicks are 15 weeks old and I'm wondering when to stop feeding them growers pellets and move on to the layers pellets. Should I do it gradually or just change it instantly?
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Just looking for some advice! I stupidly dropped an egg the other day in the coop and the hens were all swarmed around me at the time and annihilated the smashed egg. The next day I caught one of them trying to crack the egg open just after she'd laid it and today when I went out...
Hi everyone. I'm just looking for some advice but I'll give you a bit of background info first. One of my older hens didn't take kindly to a few of the chicks after initially being fine about it. It gradually got worse over a couple of days. It resulted in me coming home one day and finding one...
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I've loitered a lot on this site and found some really great advice over the last few years so I decided today to join in a little! I've got 20 chickens at the moment. The 4 original ladies are two years old now and have recently been joined by 16 babies which I got from a school...