I came home and found a two month old silkie down in the middle of my coop, with it's head off.
I left my hen out last night...
I left home right around sunrise, and didn't notice anything...
Is that something a three month old cockrel would do?
Tonight I put my hen with them, in case a rat...
I really like the idea of having a flock of friendly birds, and Swedish Flower Hens seem perfect for that; but, it's hard to find an official amount of eggs I should expect...
Which is why I'm on this site.
Because so many people here know so much more about chickens than I do. Thank you...
Hi everyone,
I've got a really good hen!
She gives me close to an egg a day, except when she's raising chicks that aren't hers for me.
She stays in a thirty square foot of my unfenced acre , and she's never left that area.
She's gently sets the example for the other chickens I've had too...
I joined this site so I could learn more about sex linking chickens.
I'm surprised to see that nobody has a word to say about it, which (I guess) makes me the default teacher...
So here's a copy and paste on sex linking for dwarfism~
Dwarfism due to the sex-linked recessive gene dw...
Hi,
I'm Alo, and I'm here because I just decide to add a flock to the old hen my neighbor gave me.
I raised 10 Buff Orpingtons, once upon a time... They killed my garden, and the neighbor's dog killed them.
Because they're harder to catch, have a better feed to egg ratio, and can't...