Our hen, Bonnie, turns out to be a rooster who've we've named Muttly. He's actually pretty nice, but he, of course, crows. I would like to keep him if I can, but one neighbor is terribly afraid of roosters, and another seems to find his singing annoying. I've read a few suggestions for how to...
I'm relatively new to chicken keeping (2 years), and this year we decided to see if we could breed one of our girls. Josephine is a 2-yr old Speckled Sussex who periodically goes broody. When our girl Goldie was killed a couple of months ago by a raccoon, we decided we'd get a rooster and see if...
My 2 yr old Red Sex-Link hen, Maisy, has been doing quite poorly lately. She has always been our most reliable layer, and she stopped laying about 5 days ago. She seems to be losing weight (I don't have her actual weight, just from the feel of her) and has been losing feathers around her comb...