Crushed my whole family my wife is always telling me to go out there when it's real early so he won't be so close to our door(we have a door from our bedroom to the yard and all the free range chickens have learned this is where the food comes from) but we both couldn't sleep last night we were...
My rooster got heat stroke yesterday and he diddnt make it i feel terrible and its not the same without hearing him all morning just be careful in the summer he was only outside unattended for 2 hrs
That's what I was also thinking because if not those eggs are going to waste so I just went ahead and stopped it for now hopefully she is ok with that I'm in the process of buying some farm land and I'm putting hatching off til we're all settled because I imagine that will be scary for them at...
She sits at night and until about 7 730 in the morning then she is barely ever sitting but its very hot we decided to take the eggs and let the summer pass
My hen is sitting on her eggs but she gets up every 15-30mins it's 90 here almost all day and when I feel the eggs they are warm but she just doesn't seem that into it I just want to know if I should get rid of the sitting eggs and start collecting again or wait it out and see
My girls are beating up on a new boy i just got so I've started taking your advice with side by side runs i would let him fight it out but his head was bloody and made me nervous hopefully they accept him or he will be lonely out there free range
My coop has a plywood and barn metal roof the panels may be recycled from a old job but they all look happy watching the rain and not sitting in it and southern heat is deadly they need shade
Fould one egg this morning and we are soo happy my girls love it at their new home im going to get more hens enough to feed my flock and maby a little bit more what is a good number of hens to reach my goal
Thanks i just took in 3 hens that were being evicted lol they are pretty but can anybody confirm for me that they are egg layers and what breed they are i was told they have been laying eggs and they are a breed that starts with o