No bears that I've heard of, at least in our part of the county. My half of Newark is actually Wise Co. but we're just a stones throw away from Tarrant.
Hello yall. Newark, TX here (North of Ft Worth). Very new to chickens in that our property has been adopted by our neighbor's flock. We're animal lovers who currently have 3 pitties, 2 cats, and a leopard gecko in the house. From what I've learned so far, the flock is American Gamefowl. Just...
Its funny because Roos (as weve started calling him after my favorite hockey player) has been pretty social, coming up to me and my husband, but seemed very stand offish when the new guy showed up yesterday.
Ok, just a quick search of American gamefowl says they're used for cockfighting. While I don't believe that was this flock's intended purpose, it makes sense where I believe they came from.
They've told us they're tired of dealing with them, which tells me they don't care but we do care. As it is right now, they're nesting in a wrecked truck and old stable on my property. We've been neighbors for 12 yrs and this isnt the 1st time we've ended up caring for their animals.
Our neighbor's flock has essentially become our flock. No clue what breed they may be. We started with 1 rooster(green tail) and 8 hens, now 7 hens. Also we've recently had another rooster coming into our yard (white tail). We also have an orphaned chick (yellow) and another chick that we know...
Hi everyone! While googling what breed of chickens we have visiting our property I found this forum. We live in the countey, and it seems our neighbor's decided they no longer feel the need to keep their chickens on their property. The flock appears to be 1 rooster and originally 8, now 7 hens...