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So I waited an extra week and my EE pullets did fill out a little bit more. Today I locked all chickens out while I cleaned big hen house. While the hen house drys out I opened the gate between the 2 separate runs. So far so good a couple of squabbles but nothing major. My husband was right (...

OK so far I've been doing what I've read on byc....I have my existing 4yr old flock ( 3EE hens 2BO hens & my BR rooster) in a separate run/house as my 5 new 16 week old EE pullets ( I hope they r all pullets jury is still out on 2 ) where they all can see each other but can't touch. They have...

So when you are determining the sex of an EE do you go by just the color????

Awesome I don't want to get rid of them. I think I will wait a little while before breaking the news to the farmer who was going to give Captain Jack a good home

This is Captain Jack at 1 week old he had a defined comb so I decided he was a rooster. Now at 12 weeks old I'm not so sure. He doesn't act anything like my BR rooster did as a young roo. The BR was trying to crow at 4/5 weeks this EE has made no attempts whatsoever and he is very timid. All of...

This is Captain Jack at one week old he had a defined comb so I decided he must be a rooster. These pics are him at 12weeks now I'm not so sure. He doesn't seem to act like a rooster however I am not an expert. I am only going by what I've read and how my barred rock rooster acted as a young...

After keeping my EE hen indoors for the day she went back to normal. I put her back out in the run @5:00ish pm with no problems. Today she is the same as always hip hip hooray. I did alot of web searching and apparently if a chicken is pecked or bumped to hard on the head they can become...

My almost 2yr old EE hen has become unbalanced.This behavior just started today. She is eating and drinking ok. I don't know if she's laying---I have 3 EE hens they all stopped laying in the early winter they have just begun to start laying again but I don't know if she has. Her poop is normal...

Just wanted to give a long over due update...I bought saddles from Moodene ( do a search in the buy sale trade forum). Her saddles are wonderful. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for saddles. It did not take long for the hens to become use to them. Now their backs look good and...

Quote: My chickies do not free range, too many dogs and other predators around. So they are protected even when he's not around to protect them.But he definately does his job I don't plan on locking him up(again) unless the saddles don't help. I had him locked up a couple of weeks ago before...

So I can expect him to be a bit more aggressive towards me or anyone else that goes near his hens I guess I'll have to chase him around more often to show him who's boss. Will he calm down in a few months? He really is a nice rooster most of the time but he does freak out if I upset the hens...

My rooster and hens will be a year old this spring. Do roosters become more active in the spring? I already had to get the hens saddles. Will he be mating them more in the spring?? I've read roosters tend to become more gentlemen like after year or once they figure out what they are doing

I bet you could use one of those Japanese Beatle bags or even just the attractent(not sure if that is a word), it comes with the bag but I'm pretty sure you can get it separate. Last year my chickies went crazy over these bettles. Word of caution I personally didn't attract the bettles to the...

My DH and I will be trimming him today. I'm going to wrap him up and DH gets to do the "fun" part . I'll let everyone know how I make out. So we trimmed his nails and spurs. The files worked much better than the dog nail trimmers. My DH ended up holding him while I did the filing. Our rooster...

Unfortunately one of the female chicks turned out to be male. Turns out that happens a lot . I did not know this at the time.By the time I found out she was a he I was attached. I am hoping I don't have to get rid of him and I don't want more chickens than I already have. Sooo I'm...

I switched from crumbles to pellets, the chickens were not happy. Sure they ate it but they also made a mess with the pellets:hu I think my chickens are a little "different" pellets are supposed to be less messy. Well I switched them back to crumbles and no more mess:clap And the chickies are...

My rooster is 9 months old. His spurs are not very long, maybe an inch probably less. However my poor hens are getting hurt. I'm doing the chicken saddle thing but want to fix the source of the problem too. All of the info/pics I've found show spurs that are alot longer than his. Plus his spurs...

Oatmeal ----warning very messy

Mine LOVE bananas. I peel them and put them in a suet cage feeder. It takes them longer to eat --- giving them something to do during the long winter.

OK I made a saddle using wilds of pa's design. It seemed to fit good BUT then Ginger(my lucky chicken who got to try this on) got hold of the elastic and started pulling on it. No big deal I figured she just needed to get use to it. Of course the others saw her and then they started pulling on...