roosters and hens

  1. B

    Rooster question

    Currently, I have 7 roosters and 35 hens. My hens feathers are broken and a lot of them are missing feathers on their back. I have tried separating the hens from at least two of the roosters. This seems to help. But it causes so much anxiety and fighting with the roosters because they can still...
  2. J

    Roos or Hennys? :(

    Hi friends! New here - first post, just joined! We have 2 5 week old Rhode Island Red and 2 5 week old Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks and it has been a wonderful journey for our family thus far. My SLW we have no doubt are females, but the RIR, they are giving us fears we have Roos! Wife, kids...
  3. ForensicNurse

    Love my GIRLS (no BOYS allowed zone)

    I ordered 15 day old chicks. This was the minimum order. I ordered ALL girls except for one all black (skin, beak, legs, feathers!) rooster. 2 of the girls were also the same breed. SIGH- I think I got somebody’s order NOT mine. They sent me MORE chicks, several weeks later. I ised this...
  4. Kimi BK

    Sanity check breeding & coops/pens

    We are new to breeding, and new to owning roos, but have had chickens for a dozen years. We now have 12 cockerels (Australorp, Wyandotte, and Welsummer) and 12 pullets (same, plus Easter Egger), all 16 weeks old. The pullets are in a 7'x16' pen with an enclosed upper portion ~7'x7', plenty of...
  5. K

    New to roosters...

    We got babies from Murray McMurray in mid August after losing our 5 previous hens when an escaped dog broke into the coop. We reinforced the coop to hopefully make it impenetrable before ordering 6 golden laced Wyandotte girls, 6 blue laced red Wyandotte girls, and 3 buff laced Polish girls. We...
  6. The Hen House: The story continues!

    The Hen House: The story continues!

    Hello again! We finally finished our coop and the chickens have been having a blast. It’s a bit of an odd design but we love it and like how moveable it is. On the coop, the front has a latch for easy access to the eggs. On both sides there are windows for plenty of sunlight and lots of...
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  7. M

    Help Jersey Giants sex

    Roosters or hens??
  8. BantamBabies

    New to everything!

    Hi! I’m new to chickens but after dreaming about getting them for 4 years and obsessing for 4 months, my sweet hubby finally gave in! He built my dream coop and run. We have a 3 and 4 year old girls ready to love on our 4 Silkies and 4 Satins (two of which are frizzled) who are 5 months old. We...
  9. rosemarysugar

    Safe to have 2 roosters??

    Hi I have 7 hens and I have always wanted a rooster but I don't want to eat fertilized eggs. I have been doing some thinking and would like to MAYBE get a rooster could we get 2 or would they fight, also would it be ok to get one (or 2) in early fall. Is there anyway to keep him from beating...
  10. A

    Need to re-home about 15 chickens and 4 roosters, Portland OR area

    Hello - My mom has about 15 chickens and 4 roosters that we need to re-home now that she is in hospice care. 4 of the chickens and 1 rooster are about 3 years old, the rest are pullets. If anyone is interested in some or all, or can point me in a good direction for re-homing in our area I...
  11. C

    To Roo or Not to Roo?

    So ... I've got a question for all you veteran chicken folks out there ... The long and short of it is this: Do I need to keep a rooster if I want to free range hens who were not raised free range (for the first year of their life)? More details: I picked up 6 chicks in April and all of them...
  12. L

    Question

    Ok so this is my 1st time ever having a chicken and a roosters, so I have no idea what I'm doing.Luna(my chicken) died two days ago and now it's just Mang (my rooster). We let him out all day and he comes back when it's time to sleep. His behavior didn't change much with Luna gone except he...
  13. Kharris75

    Make or female chicks

    At how many weeks will the chicks start showing if male or female? What physical signs do I look for?
  14. FrostyWind

    Is there a way to make my Flock aggressive?

    Hi I would like to know if there's any way that I can make my Roosters and Hens aggressive? Like really aggressive? The reason I want them to be aggressive because my flock are free range all their life, occasionally hawks and rats would come along, but not attack, well except for the rats...
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