Hi, I could use some similar advice since I can't have cockerels in my neighborhood. These two are approximately 12-15 weeks old. I think the one with the pale legs is a male and the one with the yellow legs female.
Had the girls out front enjoying some fall foraging so thought it was good time to break out the camera. They are a year and half old
Mathilda - my NH Red
All four of them
Fluffy butt courtesy of Pam
Rhonda, our Egyptian, going to town in the mulch
Pam doing her thing in...
I have only 4 and they free range in the backyard. Due to several factors, dogs, drought, heat, a former swimming pool, the addition of stepping stones, we had a lot of dead patches and dirt/sand areas. This summer my husband started putting sod down in the those areas. After he prepped the area...
Thanks Margie. This place is actually owned by a neighbor of one of my co-workers and I have put in a request for processing but am also trying Craigslist and I know a few other people who have farms/acreage so will try to place him before the processing date at the end of the month.
I need help. I've been trying to find a home for my Silver Lace Wyandotte roo . So far no luck. Who on the northern front range can I take him to for processing? I'm in Longmont and feel bad I didn't have a roo plan in place but never intended on getting another chick because I can only have 4...
OMG!!! You put the rest of us to shame. Will you come do ours??? Congratulations on such an amazing coop and set up. Your chickens better give you 2 eggs a day for that!!
I'm having a sneaky suspicion that my Silver Laced Wyandotte is a roo. I got her, Lacy, and the Barred Rock, Lucy, this past spring and they are inseparable so I hope that is not the situation because we can't have a rooster in the city limits.
Any idea BC community?
My 4 ladies have a nice new coop to call home. The old coop has been removed and they are laying, eating and drinking in the new coop (they free range in the backyard all day) but they refuse to go inside at night. They hunker down in the window wells or next to the back door that leads into...
Yep. Just a wire bottom. We put shavings in tray under the cage but Pam was sitting on just plain wire and we covered the cage at night with some old towels. No comforts of home.
Hi!
I just wanted to thank all of you who responded to my plea for help with my first experience with a broody hen. I ended up buying what was termed a rabbit cage, put food and water in it, and putting it on the side of the house where there was no direct sun as its warmed up pretty nicely...
Hey All
With over 1200 posts I don't have the fortitude to gleam through them all looking for info and help so any thing anyone can provide me - a few quick bullet points- would be greatly appreciated.
Looks like our 1 year old Austrolorp, Pam, has just gone broody on us. First hen to do that...