This is the first serious fight there has been with them. And the motivation behind it could have been a pecking order disturbance. Usually Pepper will just chase them off when they try to mess with him or his food. But they caught him off guard today. We have someone picking up our other...
I'm pretty confident in the cause of the injuries because we watched it happen. As far as breed, they are either Ameraucana's or EE's. We don't know for sure because they came from TS. He won't let me get close enough to take pictures. They are free range so aside from standard feed, they...
This morning started out normal. We are actually working on a separate pen in our coop for some new hens we are introducing to the flock. We have 3 roos and 3 hens right now. We knew time was against us because they are about 3 months old and the roos just started to get a bit aggressive. We...
Yes we will either be culling or giving away our two other roos. Luckily they are young enough that we haven't noticed any aggression really. Just typical pecking order things. We do plan on breeding them so our main roo will stay. As far as whether they are EE's or not, I am not entirely...
Thank you for the advice. I may get mealworms for them this weekend. I sit with them a lot and I think I've made some progress :) I've won their favor with some black sunflower seeds and some bits of veg from our garden (without disclosing the location of our garden). Yes, they free range...
I just wanted to say hello, as I just joined about an hour ago :) We currently have 6 Ameraucana's (3 roos and 3 hens) that free range our little homestead thing here in Minnesota. They're about 2-3 months old now and still pretty skittish. Any suggestions on how to make them warm up to us is...