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  1. rascal66

    Odd chick behavior???

    So... This might sound silly, but is it known for month old chicks- cockrels and pullets to start showing sexed behavior? My chicks are becoming nice and tame, which is great for me. I'm not 100% yet who's a roo or hen, but I have a good guess so far. Today, I scooped up one of my potential...
  2. sarastamand

    Cockerel? Almost four weeks

    Is it too soon to tell? I feel like this gal is going to end up being a boy. It’s supposed to be a California White Leghorn if that helps. Her comb is much larger than the others and she has “charged” at me twice. I think she thought I had food and was wicked excited. She’s always the first to...
  3. R

    Weird Rooster behaviour

    Hi people!I have a question about my rooster.I used to have a rooster and a hen when I was little.One of the thing that I still found it strange to this day was the behaviour of my rooster.So basically my rooster,when I would be sitting he would come near me and do somewhat a 'mating dance' you...
  4. HappyFeetHens

    Hen Eating Other Eggs But Not Her Own?

    One of my hens is laying pretty consistently through this crazy bout of weather. Yesterday, I found another egg from her (can tell by the color; she’s a leghorn and my others are RIRs) and then I found two broken egg shells in the other next box. They were completely crushed but not much liquid...
  5. Tlco

    Integrating new flock with older flock

    Ok some of you may have read my previous post on getting some new hens age 4 mo old. I have a smaller flock aprox 5 mo old with a rooster who is about 1 to 2 yrs old. Each flock have there own space but free range in our yard. They usually stay simi close to each other but not together. No...
  6. Tlco

    Introducing new 3.5 month old pullets

    Forgive the long post. I just got 4 new 3.5 month old hens. I already have 3 5mo old hens who are laying along with a rooster who is about 1 to 2 yrs old. The older hens and rooster have a nice hen house large enough for whole flock once together. Right now i have my new younger hens in their...
  7. SemiQ

    Caring for a quail chick

    I have a single quail chick that's mum was beating it up (it no longer has a intact right toe), long story short I took it home and am now caring for it. I know chicks are more content with their own but even so it was the only one to hatch and it was already a week old when I bought it home...
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    • behavior care and feeding quail as pets quail chick
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    • Forum: Quail
  8. SemiQ

    Rooster picking on hen? HELP

    I'm asking for a family member that came to me with this question. Her rooster is chasing one of the hens and not allowing her to eat or drink. I thought that maybe he was chasing to mate but the fact that hes not allowing her to eat or drink is weird. She's also checked her for mites, diseases...
  9. Minjojojo

    My 2 hand raised muscovys won't stop bullying the new muscovy!

    I have 2 one year old muscovy ducks (females) that were raised indoors since hatch and spoiled rotten. They jump into my lap for cuddles & peck at me until I pick them up. They are very sweet to people. Recently I acquired another muscovy from a farm that seems to be 2+ years old, and my two...
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    • behavior behavior issues bullying duck muscovies
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    • Forum: Ducks
  10. centrarchid

    Great-horned Owl Fun in 2019

    An owl just came in. It did not go into barn. Carcass used placed in front of camera not touched. Dogs were fired up, but had trouble locating it. Owl was trying to get at a couple of penned birds and may have gotten briefly hung up in the process. It may have flown into pen as I approached...
  11. I

    What does it all mean?

    I have a big Muscovy gal, Coco, who recently started head bobbing a bunch more and chasing off my mallards (and generally being pretty rude to them) she also chirps a lot when bobbing her head. Is she in need of something? I try to give her food but she just keeps bobbing. I'm a little concerned...
  12. spiffyvanspot

    Male button quail question...

    Hey! It's been so long since I've been on here! In September one of my button quail pairs hatched out a single baby (the others pipped and died ). In short, they were terrible parents and I ended up raising him. I'm pretty sure he is as tame as a button quail can be and I love him to death...
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    • behavior button quail male quails quail as pets quails
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    • Forum: Quail
  13. lothomson

    Non-Broody Hen Sitting in Nest with Broody Hen all Day

    Hey everyone! Long time, no see. In the past week or so, one of my hens has been broody (which is very typical of her), but weirdly enough, my other hen Joy who has never exhibited broody behavior has joined Cream in her nesting box. They share the nest day in and day out, and I can tell that...
  14. LemonyCatapult

    9 week old lethargic chick

    I have a chick that I hatched about 9 weeks ago who has just always acted lethargic. She/he had sour crop early on that was treated, and most of my flock got a respiratory infection a couple weeks ago that they were all treated for and recovered from. Through it all and even before and...
  15. Jmash

    What is happening!? Cockerels everywhere?

    I have some questions about cockerel signs and behaviors. I’ve raised 7 chicks (all supposed to be females) and of those 7, 4 are either confirmed or suspected cockerels!! Feeling pretty frustrated as we can’t keep cockerels and this statistic is way off the 90% we were quoted. 1) a red comb...
  16. lulu99

    hen wont puff up in the cold

    Hi chicken people, I have a hen (7-month Easter Egger) who has been somewhat lame for about a week or so, that's problem A which I've been looking into. However another issue with her came up -- tonight, a fairly chilly November night, on the roost i noticed she is not puffing up her feathers...
  17. KikiDeAnime

    Early Cockerel Behavior?

    So we got a 6 wk old Buff Orpington who we still haven't figured out it's gender but its acting way different than the others. He/She: -Keeps attacking me whenever I reach into the brooder to change the water/food container. -pecks the others as if doing the pecking order. -stands near one and...
  18. F

    Shunned chicken

    we have a flick of 8- EE, buff orphington, Rhode Island Red,black austerlooes and one other. They are61/2 months old. Coop is 10’ x 11’ with a large attached run. All the girls sleep huddled together on the floor- except for one lonely henthe roosts are 2 x 4’s -flat side up with a ladder to get...
  19. Jes78b

    Why are my silkies so skiddish?

    I have 6 new silkies, that are very cute, but my gosh are they jumpy. I rarely touch them for this reason. At first I thought they may warm up to me, seeing me so often, I'm the lady with the food, and if one is in trouble I come to the rescue. So now they are almost a month old and still this...
  20. T

    Roosters and crowing

    So we have 4, maybe 5 roosters, of the 100% for sure roosters 3 crow, if I remove the 3 crowing roosters will the 4th one start crowing? Or do they tend to retain their original disposition when you remove the dominant roos? Because the quiet rooster, Clover, is really sweet and if he remains...
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