So Im still kinda new to the chicken seen, my first flock was kidnapped by the neighbors cat after 1 month. My second flock was attacked by my dads dumb dog at 2 months, leaving only 1 survivor, we named him/her "solo".
We bought 4 more chicks that looked about a month or so old to keep Solo...
Our flock gets to "free range" most of the day, and lately I've noticed some of them have really black poop it looks like charcoal and water. So my question is how smart are chickens? Do their instincts tell them they shouldn't be eating certain things?
We have a fire pit with some burnt wood...
So heres a good chunk of my flock, mostly bantams and unfortunately it seems like mostly roos'
its been a few months and we're really anxious about gender, too many roo's might be a problem.. and I hear roo's take a long time to lay eggs lol
so heres my shot at identifying gender and breed...
This is Dorthy, not sure what breed she is, shes always been kinda weird, not just weird looking. She/he follows around our Golden Lace Wyandotte like a sidekick and our GLW "Solo" usually bosses all the others around but except Dorthy...anyways, the feed store didnt know what breed she was...