From my experience they start laying at around 5 to 6 months. If you'll hold them and play with them they'll bond with you and they are so sweet. My rooster loves for me to hold him and he'll lady his head on my chest like he's hugging me. He's adorable. While they're small you can play with...
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I'm applying neosporin to his comb and wattles every morning and when I put him up at night. So twice a day. This morning I like to think this treatment is helping. It looks to me like his wattles are beginning to look better. I don't really see a difference in his comb though. I will...
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My two rosters have frostbite on their wattles and combs. After much advise thanks to BYC I've begun treatment with neosporin ointment. I hope this will save my chickies from getting worse. Please feel free to comment if you have any more advise, meanwhile I'll continue this treatment and...
Thanks for your condolences. She was my lil mama, she hatched 3 babies and wanted to sit again but it was wrong time of year. I will miss her. I know it's crazy but my chicks are my babies. I love them all and they each have different personalities. It breaks my heart to think she was that cold...
Thanks Burgess for all the free advise. I worried about sealing them up tight, worried they weren't getting enough fresh air and would smother. I do have a couple of hens the silver laced w yndotte, that peck and pick on my Rhode island reds if they try to go inside the same house. They seam...
My Leghorn rooster, Foghorn has terrible frostbite on his wattles and his comb. I just read about putting neo or vasaline on him which I'll do in the morning. I don't understand why he wouldn't go inside his house, he's been sleeping on top of it. Tonight I put him inside and blocked the door so...