Got a Silkie chicken soap opera going on today… seriously LOL
Everybody was in the yard finishing up breakfast. The boys were throwing around their fluffy hormone soaked cotton ball teenager selves… everybody was totally ignoring them (they’re real ‘chicken’ and will run away screaming and hide...
I have 2 Silkie roos about 6 months old. I have 7 hens that are laying - 2 buff Orpingtons, 2 Plymouth barred rocks, 2 Australorps, 1 special needs brown leghorn - and they use a communal nest, for the most part. The 2 roos will intermittently sit on the nest and eggs and guard/defend it/them...
Hey y’all from SW Georgia!
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I’ve/we’ve had chickens off and on for like 60 years. Got my first one for Easter when I was itty bitty.
Have chickens now because my 14yo granddaughter, who lives with me, developed an obsessive passion...
