I've been giving the rooster layer feed since like 3 years almost and he is healthy, I just don't know how to make the hens eat layer and the rooster only "normal" and the hens need the layer for the extra calcium I guess.
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I have an ISA Brown rooster, an old chicken and 3 new ones that are 17 wks old so I'm giving the flock growth food but the new ones are getting bigger and bigger. The owner of a wildlife rescue center where I'm a volunteer gave me an amberlink pullet, or I think this is the type, I have...
I'm just hoping it grows big so I can introduce her to the ISA Browns I have including the rooster, otherwise I have no idea what to do with her and I don't want to give her away
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I used to have 4 chickens (ISA Brown) and a rooster, a few months ago a possum killed 3 of them, only a chicken and the rooster survived. 4 weeks ago we got 3 new chickens 13 weeks old, now they are 17 weeks old, all ISA Brown and I put them in a separated coop for a few days...
We do let them out during the day and we have a big area with trees and everything BUT I have two dogs, the one in my picture an a black labrador and oh boy... She likes to chase the new chickens, she didn't do that with the older ones because the rooster protected them but I'm a little afraid...
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My name is Daniel, I'm a biologist and I live in the cold mountains of Costa Rica (yep, we do have cold places :lol:) and my experience with chickens is very little actually... I had 4 chickens and a rooster but an opossum killed 3 chickens and a few days ago I got 3 new ones...
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I'm living right now in the highlands of Costa Rica (pretty cold believe it or not haha) and we used to have 4 chickens and a rooster but a few months ago an opossum killed 3 so only the rooster and 1 chicken survived. A few days ago we got 3 chickens, 13 weeks old and...