I recently adopted a rooster from a neighbor who was looking to get rid of his after my precious baby boy (Mr. Happy, the one in my profile pic) died this weekend
I decided to put him in the pen at the same time as adding my 4 adolescent hens to the flock, just to get the whole integration...
I have 8 hens and a rooster, and decided to let one of my hens, a Buff Orpington, (sp?) incubate her clutch of eggs after she went broody. She'd been on them for about 2 weeks, but when i went out to the pen yesterday night another hen, a Black Austrolorp, had kicked her out and is now on the...