I am looking for a home for a handsome Easter Egger roo that i adopted along with a hen last year. I don't know how old he is but I've had him for about 6 months. He was mature when I took him home. I need to find him a new home where he is the only rooster and has a flock of girls all to...
same problem here, but no smell, just wet. and of course it 18 degrees and snowy. I'm worried they are going to freeze to death in their coop. just put the sand in over the weekend and I'm not sure i should have. at least the straw was dry.
We have a small flock of (now) 3 hens and a rooster, all bantams that weve had since march. We started out with 6 and 1 but lost 2 hens to prolapsed vents when they first started laying (very traumatic) and just this week, lost a 3rd hen to a red-tailed hawk.
Since the hawk took our girl, mr...
OH! our little bandy is going thru this as we speak... i noticed it looking a bit red yesterday evening, this is her first egg, all of ours are just starting to lay. She looks really uncomfortable and isn't moving around much but i have seen her eat and drink. she is just trying so hard to push...
I think they are 8 or 10 weeks.. I will know tomorrow when i see their previous 'daddy'.
I have tried giving them some veg scraps, but they aren't keen... tomorrow i try fruit. just came across the 'list of treats' on BYC, so will try some of the recommended fruit treats.
Poor little things...
thanks for the reply.. the run is covered and withstood the hawk on it yesterday, we used pretty tough wire mesh to build the run, still frightening!
I will try the cat treats for sure. good idea. maybe i should rearrange the inside of the coop and put the laying boxes in the corner where they...
We just got 6 banty hens and one rooster... they are about 10 weeks old. We converted an open room at the back of our barn to a chicken house, put doors on it, build a huge run for them out side, built nesting boxes and a roost... I think we did a great job, but the chooks won't go in the...