I was accidentally sent a rooster who was supposed to be a she. I was going to keep him but he is systematically ripping all of the feathers of my girls and making them bleed once the feathers are gone so he has to go. I bought chicken saddles but he still rips feathers off their head and neck...
I have two question, one is whether this Araucana is a hen or cockerel?
And two, one of the tuffs kind of flops around when Bird is in motion while the other one is more stationary, is this normal? Will the floppy one ever stop being loose?
Thanks!
One of my Hill Country Feed Store chickens that is roughly 10 weeks old has revealed to be a rooster.
He is a very docile and very red.
He was sold to me as an Ameraucana but as I am reading that this breed is regularly misrepresented as such I would assume he is an Easter Egger.
He is just...
I recently took the plunge into raising chickens. After several months of contemplating I let my impulsiveness take over.
I wasn’t intending to obtain my chicks from anything but a qualified hatchery but I did the newby thing and was suckered into buying my chicks at the local feed store. They...