I have 25 hens and 6 Roosters. (All but one Roo are young - approx. 3 months old). Question is: how many Roosters can I have with this amount of Hens? There have been no issues yet, and if all goes well I have room for more Hens as well if I need to up my numbers in order to have all the...
I have a hen that is now spending most of her time in the nesting boxes. We marked 4 eggs (laid by the other hens) to see if she would sit on them. She has now moved to another nesting box. We have a flock of 20 and other hens are laying on the 'marked' eggs I was hoping she would lay on. I'm so...
4 weeks ago 12 chicks and their Mama joined our flock. Now I'm wondering what they are and am hoping to find out which are hens and which are Roos. They are 4-5 (?) weeks old so may be too soon?