Everything seemed fine but for about last two nights my rooster has been keeping one of my chickens out of the coop at night, I keep finding her trying to sleep outide, when i put her in the coop at night he kinda is mean but then let's her be. They are fine during the day time. Any advice...
I know, another rooster question thread. I've read a few of the others posted and have determined it mostly comes down to preference and rooster personality.
I'm hoping, though, that by posting my specific question I may get more specific opinions.
This is my first backyard flock. I have a...
He comes down to see my girls and while my two old hens don’t lay anymore I just got eight chicks and I want to incubate their eggs in the future so I wanted to know what he is if he ends up fertilizing any future eggs. I’d ask my neighbors what he is but they live down the road from their barn...
I have an ameraucana roo who’s just about a year old. I hate him, I want to cull him. But, my husband loves him and doesn’t want me to. He’s super friendly and follows him around when he goes in there. But, all I see him do (I spend more time with them) is over breed all of my birds. Nobody’s...
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I have a Isabelle Brahma rooster, he is about 16months old, went through his first molt before Christmas,
But his shoulder feathers have never grown out, even before & after his molt, the pins are there with the start of feather growth but have never actually grown out. I've often found...
I have two beautiful pekin ducks that just lost their loves - needing a new home.
I also have a rooster - who does the job - but has now targeted my youngest daughter. She won’t even want to interact with him and he will go after her. Going outside is scary for her - he needs to go.
So for going on two years I have kept a closed flock. My decision was in part due to the fact that my first set of birds had some disease that eventually wiped out everyone by year two with my rooster being the only exception. So I restocked from a more reputable hatchery (Mt Healthy) and had...
I have a cross beak rooster that’s a little over 3 months old now. Aside from him being much smaller than the others he hatched with, he chirps like a baby chick still. I was just wondering if he’ll grow up to be a normal rooster (sitting on hens, crowing etc.)?
I’m just super curious …
This is Mean Bean, he is 1 yr and 4 months old (I’ve had him since he was 2 days old). I was told by the local farmer where I adopted him from that his clutch was Novogens. Obviously a barnyard mix 😬
And yes, there were other breeds running around at the farm but none...
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We are new to chickens and stumped. We have had this flock since April. We did have a surprise rooster but re-homed him so we have just the one Cornish Rooster. So he was being a typical rooster with our 12 remaining females breaking their feathers and causing damage to them (drew...
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I’ve had my rooster for about 6 months now and raised him from an egg and have always brought him inside, pet him, held him, and he never fussed. But recently he pecked me for the very first time and has been asserting dominance on me, like running at me and flapping his wings.
I am...
Hello. I live in central IN and someone abandoned a Rooster at my house the other day. I have called every agency I can think of to get it rehomed as I am not equipped for chickens. Does anyone know who to contact to get it rehomed?
Hen or Roo? I feel like this is an obvious rooster but I’d like others opinions. It’s my silkie hens first and only surprise hatched baby, named Sola, meaning only in Latin! I can’t keep if it’s a roo, so hoping someone with better knowledge than me can tell me it’s a hen 😂
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We currently have a 7 month old buff orpington that we were excited about using to produce buff orpington hatching eggs. However, he has developed an attitude this past week. He went after my legs with his beak last week and again today, he went after my legs with his feet with my back...
Brothers, Winter has already arrived, and raising chickens isn't as easy as in other seasons! 😒 So, what should we do to ensure that our little chicks can spend the winter safely? Today, I'm going to tell you all about the precautions for raising chickens in winter.
Ⅰ. Warmth preservation...
Alright y'all.... I am a new chicken owner. We are at about 8 months into our first flock of 6. We have 2 unintentional Cockerels from Tractor Supply, Lord Kluck and Cluck Norris. The boys are in a separate pen because we don't have enough girls to prevent over breeding.
I want to preface this...
So last night there was a freeze, it got really cold. And my roosters do not sleep with the chickens up the coop, because I have too many right now because of I got this bunch from a random, so they were not sexed and I have 6 roosters. They usually sleep up in the trees at night. When I came...