Thank you guys for the advice. A few more tidbits, and maybe it isn't important.
The ducks eat their own food, don't sleep in the coop and don't really interact with the chickens. The naughty rooster does go in the coop at night and sleeps with the chickens, then in the am, he is out on a...
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So the background story is, we have 8 ducks, 28 chickens... 2 being roosters. Well one rooster is a little older than the other, and he runs the show. He guards the pullets and is very protective, I LOVE IT!
Well... my other cockerel is getting older and definitely maturing and is...
the fenced in area is probably close to 1 acre. the whole farm place is 3-4. He's been doing really well at staying near. But I still haven't left the gate to the yard open all night.
So what do you mean by this? We have a fenced in yard, which we've been keeping the pup inside, and the coop is a ways down the yard. So for example... I have been working on sit with him, and once he got that down, I took him down to the chicken run with me later in the day, and tried to work...
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I'm new to chicken farming but I have 28 pullets, ranging from 8-20 weeks. They are in the coop and doing great. We live in the country and see foxes, skunks, coons, and other predator's all the time. My birds free range all day, and we lock them up at night, but sometimes we...
So a friend who just started the chicken life had to move, so I gladly took her few chickens. She has no idea about what they are.
The first pic is of a pullet, I know the face is blurry, but she has very dark eyes. I was thinking wynadotte due to her coloring, but her shape makes me think...