I've got 2 young (maybe 7-8 months old) SFH roos in with 2 hens (and some 2 month old pullets for future hen relief). I keep finding only one egg a day, or no eggs and wet egg goop in the hay in the nesting box. Today I've observed both roosters climbing into the nesting box, for who knows what...
I'm trying to get eggs together for someone who wants fertile hatching eggs (hoping they hatch a few for me too!) but the temps around here are still in the mid twenties to thirties in the daytime, and most of the eggs are cold by the time I find them (unless I stand out there waiting for a hen...
I *had* 11 4 month old American Bresse outside in a coop and when I went out to feed them a day ago, one looked sick. I made arrangements to get her inside, but when I went back out to get her, she was dead. The next morning (yesterday) 2 more were dead in the coop, the rooster I was going to...
Long, long story short I've been living here with ducks for about 3 years, and chickens for over a year. Recently (2 months ago) another renter's horses broke into my backyard (I live on a horse farm) from the paddock behind my yard and trashed it. This happened over and over again almost daily...