Ok so I’ve done everything right? Separated the new 12week old birds about 3 weeks in a coop so the other birds can see them. Let them free range together but still had new girls go to their “own house” no sleep overs yet. Finally put everyone together last night helping the new girls into the...
I have a beautiful Buff, sweet as pie! I have a Plymouth Rock, a bit sketchy but I love my Dottie. I also have a Black Sex link, now this lovley lady be CRAZY!!
I have 2 new porcelain d'uccle bantams, Laverne and Shirley, and my sex link, Effie, will give these two no peace! I have seperated...
New at this chicken thing so I have a black sex link and no rooster and she sits and sits and when I try to move her she puffs up and growls at me. I am concerned that she isn't eating if I just leave her to hatch her "invisible" chicks. When I do move her the other ladies want to peck her when...
I have heard of hens crowing and since this is my 2nd silver laced wyandotte because the first one was infact a rooster, is it possible that once again my "Aunt Mary" in an "Uncle Mary"?
Ok so i'm just loving this chicken thing! They are so darn cute and busy and they are roaming all over and running to me for grapes and raisins. I have 5 ladies, or so I thought. One of them has started making a very odd noise and has saddle feathers. This chicken is the biggest of all and has a...
Second night with the "girls", had to help remind them to go "upstairs" to sleep, always trying to sleep/roost on the feeder, actually Gwendolyn was roosting on the rim and the rest of them were jammed inside. I do leave the door to the coop open, the run is secure so I'm thinking thats ok? Now...
For Mother's Day I got a coop and a promissory note for chickens. Got my new "babies" last evening, 1 Buff Orpington, Gewndolyn, 1Barred Rock, Myrtle, 1 Silver Lace Wyandotte, Dottie, 1 Gold Comet, Rosie and 1 Black Sex-Links named Effie. They were all born together and are 9 weeks old. Myrtle...