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I think two roosters with three hens would be a bit much; one rooster can take care of more than three hens, but can the three hens stand two husbands . . . Yep, I'm thinking both of the roosters would consider all three ladies his. Or, they'd kill each other trying to keep all the gals for...

Thanks. I think I'll buy the chicken feed and let my daughter supply me with eggs this next year. Buying tasteless eggs from the grocery store is not my cuppa tea . . . We'll probably incubate a new flock beginning in January.

Mr. Roo is gone.

Well, duh, I didn't tell where I'm located . . . And Mr. Roo was so psyched up! I'm in Benton, Arkansas. I'll try to get my daughter to take a picture of him. He's a pretty guy; multi-colored red/black with white tail feathers.

I have a rooster who lost his flock to predators who needs a new home or flock. He's a very nice guy who never worried about my being in the pen with his girls.

You are welcome. Good luck.

I had that problem with Mr. Roo last year. I finally nailed it down when I saw one of my hens pluck a pinfeather from his back. Seems as how pinfeathers can be tasty? Dunno, but I had to confine him until his feathers grew back, but that didn't solve the problem. As soon as he was back in the...

When I have baby chicks, I keep them in a large plastic tote in the bathtub off my bedroom. At the moment, I have four baby chicks in there. They’re about three weeks old. I generally do their housekeeping every morning. Their water jar was close to empty, so I made a gallon of water with...

OK, I've decided to keep the rooster pictured. He seems to be the nicest one. And, he calls the hens when I put chicken scratch out for them.

Here are some of mine. They're mutts derived from ISA Browns. Silly fellow pool player thought he'd make more ISA Browns; instead, this is what he got! :eek::ya I have three red pullets, four white pullets, and Splotches. Plus, I have two red roos and one white one. I'm a bit torn between...

If it doesn't rain in the next hour or so, I'll go out and get some pics. At this point, I have white ones, red ones, and one that's white with black intermingled in her feathers. I call her Splotches. :) Between the three roos, one is white and two are red. I'm torn between keeping the red...

My chickens aren't free range by any stretch of the imagination. They're in a chicken pen with a chicken house in it. Otherwise, the raccoons, 'possums and foxes would have a feast! However . . . My chickens have a "loafing shed" with perches to sleep on at night if they choose. Further...

On Friday, I took down the dividing fence between the teenage chickens and my adult hens. A tiny bit of chaos, but everyone settled in pretty quickly. While rearranging their feed and water containers and working on the entry gate, I still had to wade through teenagers, but that's not a real...

They have now! Yesterday, my daughter and I created a partition for the "new kids on the block" in the adult chicken pen, then added the teenagers. Of course, the hens were curious, and when one looked into the partition, the white cockerel fluffed his feathers out around his neck; guess he...

What a wonderful story.

Awwwwww, I'm sorry you have a guy instead of a gal. With my latest batch of chicken kids, I consider myself very lucky to have only three cockerels. I've been watching to see which one of them I want to keep. Then again, I may need two; with four adult hens plus eight pullets. I'm thinking that...

Yep! My daughter gave a flock to a friend, who left them out in a pasture with a small chicken house without doors. Needless to say, within a week she no longer owned chickens.

Free Range is the best way to lose every chicken you have! Even in a non-rural setting, there are coyotes, raccoons, o'possums, dogs, and any number of other predators, and if your chickens aren't secured, they're dinner for something! Chicken security is being inside a pen with bottom, top...

Take it back!

Agree that it's a cockerel.