I keep my chickens in movable tractors. In order to keep happy, healthy chickens I can only keep so many birds in each. I only have one rooster and I want him with a fresh set of hens. Do I move the hens or the rooster ? I was thinking of moving the hens in order to rearrange bird amounts in a...
How long does it typically take for a newly introduced rooster to start breeding with the hens ? Now I know y’all will have questions so I’ll start to answer some now:
He was just introduced to the hens 3 weeks ago.
The hens are younger than him as the hens are 8 months old and he is over a...
I am having issues introducing 2 new baby chicks (roughly 8 weeks) to a flock of hens (roughly 10 weeks older) The older chickens wont stop chasing and pecking the younger chickens. They have been in the same pen with the older chickens for almost 2 weeks now (being separated during the day) but...