i had a hawk kill my favorite silkie a week ago and we can't afford to put netting up over the run yet. but every one in my family was outside and so were my dogs, the thing that alerted us was our rooster, he just started giving off a strange call we hadn't heard before. the chicken hawk kept...
Nice cat. none of my cats catch mice often. and thats a nice size coon, the only thing we got around here so far was a opossum, but hey, he killed 7 of our chickens first! nearly a third of the flock! he had all night to do it though, he some how found a hollow beam with a hole in it and climbed...
my black polish rooster get his head feathers pulled out all the time, mostly during the night. sometimes it'll be all bloody, is there anything i can do to help stop them from doing that? i mean now he looks a little funny with this bald path in the middle of his head.
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I have 17 birds(leghorns and bantams), around 5 of the bantams are roosters. they're about 4 or 5 months old, and don't fight yet. can you keep more than one rooster in a flock? and if not, around what age will they start fighting?
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My chickens are around 4 or 5 months old, i have 6 leghorns and 10 bantams, and one rooster. The other day my fav. silkie hen was killed by a hawk. i know someone who has a few silkies around the same age as my chicken, and i'd like to replace my hen. would it be hard to add a new chicken to my...