We rescued this rooster in December. Put him with our two five year old hens, he made it clear he was in charge but that was it. The new rescue hens are three months old and he bombards them with barrage of spurring and pecking. He even now tried spurring myself and wife. He has been a sweet boy...
My older hen gives off one egg a day even in the cold months. All of a sudden zero? Ah, she’s six years old, sex he goes in her box pretends etc. etc.
Wrong! This is our weekend ranch in the mountains, we are there Friday thru Monday and since the quarantine I work one day a week so we are now...
He too hates the rain and snow. Loves straw bedding in his dog house converted goat house. He free ranges but we have an area for him to be contained about 25% of the time. Right now he’s eating all the young California Poppy’s. Our neighbors have beautiful blue, purple, yellow and orange...
Watch the head budding too. Sometimes playfull, but in their DNA. Always dangerous. Our Billy rated up but goes lightly because he was a bottle fed affectionate boy. He still will put is nubs in your gut with a soft ram!
Starting to snow again. My Buffs don’t like walking in the snow. They have a lot of fluff to them but stay under cover while it snows. Luckily we are at 4000’ elevation and it doesn’t stay for very long, usually couple days, were supposed to get 12” today!
Central Cali, stores are good and gas is cheap.
I work at the college in Operations and working one day a week. Luckily we are under contract and doing other 4-days with virtual training.
Fortunate enough that my three of four kids have state jobs and are at home as well and we get together...
Just heard Government is going to re visit lifting movement of birds in June. I just built. 30 capacity coup in the City house and planned on introducing 15 Guinee to my mountain ranch. I’m building Guinees an in closed area where they can roam and even fly partially into tree’s ( I closed with...
My rooster would crow in a unlit vault and you’d still hear him!,
He crows relentlessly an hour and half before any daylight. Pitch black.
Crows all day, comes to the back door and pecks at it and shoots his beak to all heaven.
We live in the mountains w no close neighbors and he is a...
Getting Guinee’s? We live on two acres in the mountains. We had a massacre from neighbors dogs with our first batch of chickens but now fenced in and haven’t had issue since. Now my fence only on one side is shared with new boyfriends wolf dogs. My fence is five foot tall. If they go over are...