Recently the rooster, which will be culled tomorrow night, has started getting way too aggressive with the Easter Eggers when mating (and more aggressive in general with us as well). All the EE's are getting hurt in the same spot in the middle of the back just before the tail. One to the point...
Wanted a tool for scooping up waste in the run without wasting the construction sand from the main section or the dirt under the coop they use as a dust bath. Had some nets laying around but even 1/4" sized netting still pulled out too much of the pebbles in the construction sand and a lot of...
My black australorp rooster will not roost or climb up anything. Wouldn't care except when night time rolls around, he won't even climb back into the coop, so I end up with 3 rhode island reds and couple barred rocks that will always stay with him and it becomes a battle to get him into the...
So... we are new to chickens this year, but I have noticed something very telling about all the black australorp roos we ended up with vs. other chick breeds that have all turned out to be pullets, and now three of the four australorp chicks we have now. All the chicks that did turn out to be...
Thanks to TSC, I am on my third batch of 3 Australorps. First batch was straight run, all cockerels - my fault, but the next two batches were supposed to be pullets. Also have an ISA Brown that was supposed to be a light brahma, but she's a friendly little bugger so no big deal. This will be...
We live in Western MD, and at the moment we have 1 Australorp rooster. Our pullets are 1 ISA Brown, 2 Barred Rocks, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Ameraucanas. We also have what we hope are also going to be hens that are 3-4 week old chicks - and those are 3 Australorps and 1 mystery bird that was...