When I first got roosters years ago, the best advice I got on here was, don’t let it be his yard, it is always your yard, walk through him. I’m NOT saying kick him but, make him move for you, submissive animals move for dominant animals, if you are moving around him it is his yard. I handle the...
I know my hens count their eggs, then if I let them hatch, they count the chicks. Sometimes if a hen goes broody I will take the brown eggs, but leave the blue, some accept this, but a few of my hens get pissed and switch nest boxes, they always pick a box with the same number of eggs as they...
My sister ordered 15 chicks and got this one as an extra, I'm pretty sure it's a boy by the comb size, but can anyone help with breed. He has grey/blue legs
My rooster died, and I want to save his genes, even though I had read on here you can't make a chicken go broody, I still tried. After 2 days of her standing at the front of the dog crate gripping, and me feeling like a mean prison warden I bought an incubator. My question is these eggs are...
Yes he is a pit bull, he came with the house we bought in October. He will kill a chicken, and have fun doing it, but for some reason loves and protects the geese. I saw him leap in the air to attack a hawk that was diving for a gosling, I was sitting there and didn't see it coming, but he was...
I have a 9 month old pit that killed a chicken, but he really likes the young geese, lets them snuggle when they are all outside. I think for him it was all about the chicken ran and acted like prey, and the geese don't run. Having said that he is not left unsupervised with any of them.