Haha...hadn't occurred to me that I might have been being manipulated!!! But I surely manipulated him, many stressful changes for him in a short time, and he did his very best to comply with all demands, for example, bravely walking himself up a brand-new-to-him weird ramp into a very strange...
Thanks! I'm so glad to find you all and your knowledge & experience.
We have a bunch of mixed breeds from a barnyard mix. Salty, our alpha rooster is a light-colored Brahma and the sweetest, best leader of the flock you could imagine. His girls are 2 Polish and 1 small red hen, not quite a...
!!!! Yep, it's hard not to adopt every bird that comes up locally, especially roosters, who I love, it turns out. But we really can't expand at all, and hubby is adamant, so there's that too.
Just 7 of them, none quite a year old yet. Two turned out to be cockerels and did not get along, so I separated them into 2 tiny flocks. Everyone's happy now, and I'm exhausted!