Hi everyone. I'm kinda curious: why do roosters crow?
Please forgive me if this has already been asked.
I'm new to chickens. As someone raised in the city, the idea of a rooster saying a cheerful "cockadoodle doo!" once or twice to greet the sunrise sounded very romantic to me. Right? But the...
Hi everyone. First-time chicken owner here. I have a male chicken who is about 18 weeks old I think, and a half-dozen females that are about 14 weeks old. I currently keep them all together.
The past 2-3 weeks, the male seems kind of "unstable", like he is full of angst or something. I get the...
Hi y'all. I'm a new chicken keeper, and I've got a small, young flock, including a young rooster who is approaching 4.5 months of age.
I recently got rid of a second male of the same age - I was able to return him to the farm where I got him as a baby.
Anyway, this morning, the remaining young...
Completely new to chickens. There is so much to learn!
I like the idea of knowing where my food comes from, and if some sort of strange emergency happens in our crazy world, it seems like a good idea to learn how to grow our own food, etc. So that's part of how I got here.
I got some Barred...