I'm still a newbie... I've had my little flock for several months. I have two hens who I think are going to go broody often. I've broken them twice each because we didn't have room for more chickens (even though I WANTED MORE! ) We finally finished a bigger coop just as a hen went broody yet...
I am a newbie but have lurked here since before I got my first flock in November. I had 4 hens and 1 rooster, and I let them free-range during daylight hours. Unfortunately, my rooster seems to have met an untimely death, probably due to a predator. He vanished without a trace, but all of my...
Hi! I moved out to the country in June and got my first 4 hens and 1 rooster as an anniversary gift in November. Everyone knows the 10th is the live poultry anniversary, right? They were 6 months old at the time. They started laying in the middle of our coldest weather snap last month when we...