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Knuckles started crowing 2 weeks ago and is the proud leader of the flock! He rounds up the girls when it's time to head back from free ranging and he keeps everyone in line. The girls have accepted him 100% ! I love to hear him communicating with them and how quickly they respond.... Amazing!!

Just wanted to give an update on Knuckles. We decided to give him full access to the run and coop and put the aggressive hens in the smaller wired off section of the run. We had 5 hens in there and now we are down to 3! The worst one, Skittles, has failed miserably to accept him and continues to...

Knuckles went right up the ramp into the coop last night. Nobody bothered him until this morning when they got bored around 6:30 am and then the same 2 hens went after him. He's on his half of the run now along with Sweetie. He tried to mount her so at least he's doing what he's supposed to!

We just put sweetie with knuckles and he did the circle thing around her and they are getting along wonderfully!!!!!! Let's see what happens tonight. Maybe I should bring them some wine and play some Barry White! Lol

He sleeps on the coop floor every night... Right in the middle of the coop. When he goes in just before dark they don't bother him... It's just at daylight when they are all out in the run and mostly 2 of the aggressive hens. I don't think he can hop up on a roost and not hurt himself.

Knuckles cannot roost because one foot it turned up, kinda like when Italians say manga manga and the other one the toes are wrapped .... I'm amazed at how well and fast he can move but still cannot roost... Only on his dreams! I will put sweetie with him and see how they do..,,, the refuge does...

Thank you so much! What a brilliant idea! I know exactly who I can put with him. I have a lovely comet named Sweetie and she is the lowest hen. I will give it a try and keep you posted.

Hi Members! I really need some advice here. My family and I recently adopted a handicapped rooster with curled toes named Knuckles. We saw him at a local animal refuge and I immediately fell madly in love with him and adopted him. We currently have 11 hens that range from one year to 2 years...

Congrats on getting your girls moved outside.... And as you know, the fun starts now! Lol I've found that we wanted our girls in before they were ready and that lead to a lot of running around after them. We finally decided to wait until they were all in the coop and then would close the ramp...

Yep! Our Whiney-hiney is MOCHA, our Rhode Island Red! She complains when I open the man door to the house, when I don't open the man door, when she sees us in the yard, whencer stand at the back door, when she's free ranging, when she's awake!!!!!! No pleasing that woman but she was our first...

Awe... She's beautiful!!!! I'm thinking what we bought as tetra tints are actually leghorns. Hubby discovered blue/green ears yesterday and so far white eggs from both of my babies daily. I just looked out the back door and one of them, probably Houdini, levitated above the raised nesting house...

Ours were sold to us as tetra tints and just last week at 17 weeks old they are laying bright white little eggs! Hmmm maybe we got leghorns?? Still cutest little girls!

Nothing from ours yet either. They are getting red combs but compared to the golden comets we got at the same time they are way smaller. I doubt we will see eggs before the next few weeks. They still amaze us with their nutty behavior! One of ours saw a bird on the roof of the run and then out...

I hadn't heard... Thank you for the information! Mine are doing extremely well but I will check with store to be safe.

They look exactly like the tetra tints we purchased from TSC this spring! They are the quickest things you ever saw or tried to catch!!! We named one hudini because she would always find the tiniest opening in the run and escape! I have amber links, reds and golden comets and the tetras are very...

I just checked the bag... 18%...I'm telling you these birds are BIg for just 4 weeks!!! Anyone else have golden comets around this age?

We just got 4 Golden Comet chicks from Tractor Supply 4 weeks ago and I have been feeding them Manna Pro medicated food. My first chicks were fed Dumour starter. These new chicks grew faster, bigger, feathered already at 4 weeks and are SMART!!! Is it the food or the breed? Does anyone know? My...

The one in the middle is from the Rhoad island red.... Ours just started laying and that's the exact egg we get!! Congrats.... Isn't it amazing???? I stalk the coop daily and I swear one of my hens rolled her eyes and sucked her beak at me! Lol

update: 5/19/13 at 5:45am.....CROWING!!! Someone is in the coop crowing...sad little pitiful sound but crowing! Hubby and I just stared at each other and when he went to the man door they all ran up to say good morning and the crower was pressed up against the screen just as proud of herself and...

Do you know if it is normal for the hens to be aggressive with White Rocks? i'm really not enjoying being attacked everytime I enter the pen....I dread the day I have to retrieve an egg! I might lose a finger in the process Do you know if they develop their wattles and combs much earlier than...