Just a quick update..I found Beast a new home and we took him there today. Kathy rescues all kinds of foul and she invited my daughter and I over to see his new digs and meet the rest of her flock. I am heartbroken that I had to re-home him but am very happy with the home we found for him...
I don't know why I didn't think to date them when getting them out of the coop. I have just been rotating the cartons, (newest on the bottom) but now that I am getting 6-10 eggs a day, It is getting progressively more difficult.
Jeeze, the most simple things I learn on here!
I am just afraid of what might happen to him if I put him on craig's list. You know people will tell you what you want to hear and I am afraid he will end up in a fighting ring or something. I thought by putting him on here I would at least get people who loved and appreciated him.
Hi there MD peeps! I started with chicks this spring and never thought I would become so attached to a flock of birds. In the spring when the "girls" went out to their coop, one of them let out a really loud "cock-a-doodle-doo" needless to say, she is really a he! It wasn't a problem all...
Yea I wanted to put him on the BST but I am to new.
I was told that he was too old for caponizing (6 mos) and that it didn't do much to stop the crowing.
Thanks for the reply though...
When I originally purchased my first chickens this spring, we were "guaranteed" that I was getting all hens. My kids and I raised them from little hatch-lings and really bonded to all of them. I never thought I would get so attached! Shortly after we put them outside in the pen, one of my...
one of my EE lays blue eggs very regularly that have a good hard shell. One day my son went out to collect eggs and found a blue egg with a soft gummy shell.
He said "I think Hawkeye farted and and egg fell out early"