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Just placed my order for one of these hen saddles! I'm new to raising chickens and I didn't intend to buy a rooster. His favorite girl, Selena, is missing a lot of feathers on her back, so I hope this works well for her and will help to protect her and give her time to grow her feathers back...

Thanks for the advice, this is helpful! It's just strange since they have been going in the coop on their own for a few months now, so hopefully they learn again. I'm definitely worried about digging predators, so maybe I'll do what you suggested if I decide to leave the run door open at night...

My Buff Orpington is my very first hen to lay an egg! She laid the first egg yesterday at 19 weeks. :)

I have 4 hens (2 of which are Buff Orpingtons) and I got my very first egg ever yesterday!! So proud of Buffy, my Buff Orpington. She is 19 weeks old. :)

Your run looks great and green! What is the best way to seed the run to grow anything green in it?

My five 19 week old chickens have been outside in their coop now for 3 and a half months and at dusk they always go in their coop and roost by themselves. Two weeks ago we added a roost in their run so that the girls can get a break from the maturing rooster and it gives them something else to...

I got my very first egg yesterday!! From my 19 week old Buff Orprington, Buffy, sure made me proud!

We decided to keep him around, so we've been feeding him. Yeah we have about 4 other turkeys and 15 babies roaming our property, all wild, and they all stay at least 50ft away from me, so it is quite strange. I've been feeding him everyday and when I come outside he walks up to me and waits for...

I haven't heard of the aprons, I'll have to check into them, thanks! It may be too hot for me to put them on the hens now but maybe when it gets cooler. I'm sure they would appreciate the protection. I like your idea of getting a younger rooster so that they mature at the same time. I didn't...

Haha yeah we were thinking about that! Since he is friendly, I would prefer to relocate him to another field or farm.

Thank you, this is very helpful. Hopefully the girls start laying soon so they can reach the same maturity level.

Wow yeah that's a lot of roosters! I would have done the same thing. I had bought 6 hens and one turned out to be the roo. Glad your flock is happy! I'll have to figure out if I'm going to keep him around or not.

I do have room in the basement and garage that I would be able to keep one chicken in case of illness or injury, but I don't think it would make sense to keep the rooster separated from them inside, right? Plus I don't want him crowing inside the house. I'd want to have him outside somewhere...

I have 5 chickens that stay in their coop and run all day and night. A young, male wild turkey about a year old has been hanging around the coop/run for at least 5 days now and counting. He is friendly and I can walk up to him and get within a foot or two away from him and he doesn't care. He...

I have 4 hens and 1 rooster and they're all 4 months old. The rooster is starting to try to mate with two of them and those two hens are scared of him and they curl up in the corner and hide their heads. They scream when he chases them and he bites them and the one hen's head was bloody...

Thanks for the advice everyone. I don't have a place to keep him separate, I have one coop that is big enough for 6 chickens and a run that is attached to the coop for them. But I don't have a place to keep him separate and still protected by predators.

Hi All, I have 4 hens and 1 rooster (he's a silver laced wyandotte). They are all 4 months old and the rooster just began crowing and trying to mate with 2 of the hens this week. He only chases and bites 2 of the 4, and when he does they scream and run away. He's been really going after the one...