I would like to add a couple new babies to our existing 4 girls (2 BO's, a RI Red, & a Dominick) and one of our BO's is forever going into strong broodiness periods. I don't want to do the incubator thing and only want a couple additions. A friend successfully adds a baby chic under a broody...
I've only had chickens a couple years so really appreciate all the good advice I read on this site. My problem: 4 chickens, allowed to free range a couple to few hours a day, nasty neighborhood cat attacked and caused deep scratch on head just below comb. I cleaned blood and gunk with normal...
I am fairly new to chickens, after having everything from mules, horses, dogs, cats, fish, wild animals of all kinds in Montana, but I am learning a lot about chickens now. I love this site. Do BO's go into Broody behavior more than other breeds? I have two and they seem to go into that...
I am learning so much about having chickens for the last year but I have a couple quick questions.
No 1: My free range 4 chickens go into their roost at about 2-3 min later each day as the days get longer and how
do they know how to do this?
Also, out of my 4 chickens, two are BO and both seem...