My roo has been crowing for about a month now. He is pretty loud. I live in a neighborhood where the houses are about 150 yards apart. That's a good thing, but I do worry about complaints. I told my neighbor I was sorry about the rooster's crowing and that I was deciding what to do about him...
I have six-week-old chicks in the pen and coop with my eleven week old first flock. I tried so hard not to love them too much.
Didn't even name them. But each day they get cuter. My adolescents act so sophisticated and leisurely. But these little kids are still wonderfully curious and playful...
I have three leghorns, two gold stars, a Wellsummer and two RIR. All the R's do is eat eat eat. They crowd the others out of the feed. One of the reds is a cockerel. the other is a pullet. Do others find the RIR's cost effificent? Will my eggs equal my food input? The leghorns are lean and...
My coop is too small, now that my flock has jumped from 5 to 9. ( What was I thinking?) If I added another coop at the other end of the run, do you think they'd use it? Or would they just flock into the old coop and push each other around? I am not likely to build my own coop, so I'm...
So the flies are very happy with my new chicken hobby. I have never sees so many. I don't really guess I know what to do with chicken litter. How do I cover it or contain it or neutralize it so that the flies stop swarming. I threw it in the compost, but that's clearly a fly's idea of Christmas...