We have an easter egger rooster named Brownie that has been the only rooster in our flock for some time now. He is not aggressive towards us in any way and up until recently never saw him being aggressive to any of the hens (we have 9). However, one of our orpingtons got broody about 3 months...
These 6 Black Australorps are about 11 - 12 weeks old now. This guy on the left is hoping some are girls
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Thanks from our rooster "Brownie" for the feedback in advance!
I got 6 guinea keets about 3 months ago they were a few weeks old at the time. They lived in a grow out coop we have doing very well got pretty big and drank from a white bucket with nipple waterers on it all that time. 2 days ago we let them out for the first time. Well not only did they decide...
Yesterday my son noticed scaly leg and a large swollen area on one of our 6 mo old barred rock roosters. Today it couldn't walk well and we put his legs in mason jar with gas then let them dry. Next we put A & D ointment on his legs. He struggled a bit while we were applying it then just fell...
So I have a Buff Orpington that has been broody several times this year. This week she started being broody again around Saturday and we had her in a cage in the run but she escaped twice and made it back to her nesting box (long story). We were planning on having her hatch some chicks soon...
I have a nice coop my wife built here:
But you can see up at the top of the yard behind the coop near the woods is an old dog run/fence. I want to make this old dog run into a temporary/quarantine coop for introducing new birds or isolating sick or broody birds.My plan was to wrap the...
So we built our coop over the winter and have had a couple of buffs in it for about a month. Since we added the buffs I have seen foxes in the yard. One morning I was going out to give the chickens some scraps and 2 foxes were in the yard just above the coop watching me. Then to my surprise one...
Our family is new to chicken keeping. We have a coop and a small flock. We have 2 Buffs that just started laying and 4 smaller chicks that are about 3 months old. I know not to give the smaller chicks layer ration so we have their chick food down lower and some pullet food up higher for the...