Well it’s quite a long story actually. We actually gave him a way. He was doing fine, but suddenly he became a lot more aggressive, pecking his sister and mother and other chickens in the coop. Whenever I fed them he would chase everyone away and tried to keep it to himself. I thought the bad...
It really depends on the rooster.. you can get really lovely protective ones and really aggressive ones who can torment the hens too. it really varies.
She ate mainly pellets, veges, sometimes fruits, and if she was lucky I gave her scraps like rice or bread. She didn't lay eggs. I don't remember her puting her tail down, but one thing i deffenitley remember is she was doing something funny with her wings; she kinda pushed it downwards, her...
Recently, I lost one of my chickens, Mariana. (she was a rir) I still don't know why, although I think it may be mareks? I don't have much experiance with diseases and such so i'm not too sure.
One day I went to check on her and she couldn't use her leg. The day before her leg was fine... it...
Recently I got 2 chicks - I have found out that one is a rooster. ( I added a photo of him ) I've never had a rooster before and I've never raised chicks before either. He's really sweet, but i've heard once they get older and start crowing, they can become aggressive. I really would like to...
I had a very similar case with one of my chickens, too. She was also moulting heavily around her head and neck and mainly nothing else. She stopped moulting around 2 months after that, and she was fine. I think she will be okay, but i'd keep an eye on her just in case. I'm not really experienced...
I have two chicks, Twiggy and Fern - Twiggy being a rooster and Fern being a hen. They are 8 weeks. I got them from a breeder who said that the chicks that could hatch would be one of these breeds (or a mix). Here are the breeds:
White rock
Barred rock
Australoup
Rhode Island Red
Wyandotte
Does...