dead rooster

Hi all, I'm in my first year of chicken keeping, we bought a house that already had a large coop and chickens that stayed with it. So we were driving pretty blind but walked into a functioning system. I believe the previous owner said that most of the hens were 2-3 yrs old, there are a couple...

Hello We just lost our youngest roo today, and I am now trying to figure out what happened. I made a post during the ordeal, which you can find here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/emergency-bird-asleep-in-coop-might-have-gotten-too-cold.1425439/ He had been puffed up for the last day...

My ‘leading’ rooster attacked a four year old boy while trying to get his sister, Aphrodite, back to the flock. His parents were furious and pretty much forced me to kill him. He was an amazing rooster who kept everything going good, other than him being overprotective of his chickens. I thought...