A couple of years ago our bantams hatched some chicks, and one of them as a TINY rooster (when adult he was 1/2 the siz of all the others..
Just wondering if others have had this occur & is it common? He did not live for long, only about 18 months.. He suddenly had trouble breathing, lost his...
Hi everyone,
Thought I should introduce myself... I am in country Victoria, Australia..
We have a "small Farm", with the following assortment of critters:
6 ducks
1 goose (gander had to be re-housed as he thought he was a duck and nearly drowned them trying to mate)
1 rooster (bantam)
6 bantam...
We recently adopted an adult peking drake, who had been raised with chooks.. Unfortunately he thinks he is a chook, and tries to "love"all our chooks. As he is bigger than them and ducks have quite a rough mating style (compared to roosters), we are worried he may do some harm. We would prefer...