She is healing and more active in the coop. She is also reasserting her dominance with the other girls, but I have kept him separated from her with the exception of the two really cold nights we had. I felt sorry for him and didn't want him to be cold, so I let him sleep with the girls. I will...
My chickens are all allowed to free range. Cogburn was not a free range roo when we got him. He was kept in a 2x2 single coop. He is enjoying the free range, and becoming accustomed to his new life of daily meal worm treats and morning scratch and he is a beautiful bird. He doesn't treat any of...
We did introduce him through this method, wire dog cage next to the coop with food and water. Lucy wasn't interested in going anywhere near him even then. And she is at the top of the pecking order, or has been until this incident. Now at the top of the pecking order are either his favorite, a...
My adopted Cornish Cross, Lucy Loose, is being attacked regularly by our newly acquired rooster, Colburn. He pecks at her head whenever he can get at her till she is bleeding and continues until one of us breaks it up or she somehow gets away from him. Whenever I break it up, I quarantine her in...