Black_Cat's Ultimate Chicken Name Thread!

[black_cat]

They are the sweetest breed there is! She’s so pretty.

They seem wonderful, but I'm worried any I got would get too fat/have health issues.

 

[JadeFarms]

They seem wonderful, but I'm worried any I got would get too fat/have health issues.

That’s the risk I’m taking with her. I worry about her everyday, she does everything with me. My last was perfectly healthy at 2 1/2 years but she got attacked. That was about a year ago, we called her pancake

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

For a while we were worried about that too, so we reduced the amount she ate and kept a close watch on her health. She seems very healthy and happy, and we're very glad we kept her! She also lays very large eggs. She once laid one that was bigger than a duck egg and then some!

 

[black_cat]

For a while we were worried about that too, so we reduced the amount she ate and kept a close watch on her health. She seems very healthy and happy, and we're very glad we kept her! She also lays very large eggs. She once laid one that was bigger than a duck egg and then some!

How do you reduce the amount that the CX eats without underfeeding the rest of the flock?
Wow, that's a HUGE egg! :O

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

They also seem to be food magnets (at least ours is!) which is why we try to monitor how much she eats.

 

[JadeFarms]

Mine doesn’t lay yet, most of mine don’t (at 9 months) they’re all just a bunch of freeloaders Lol. I feed her and her flock of normal large fowl chickens a bucket of feed at 5:00 every day. She also gets free ranged and I make her fly small distances each day. She can fly up to the top of our swing, 4 feet. My last one layed jumbo eggs and they were creamish white.

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

How do you reduce the amount that the CX eats without underfeeding the rest of the flock?
Wow, that's a HUGE egg! :O

We feed her separately from the flock. She gets plenty of exercise because she free ranges with the other hens, and she rewards us with torpedo eggs.

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

Mine doesn’t lay yet, most of mine don’t (at 9 months) they’re all just a bunch of freeloaders Lol. I feed her and her flock of normal large fowl chickens a bucket of feed at 5:00 every day. She also gets free ranged and I make her fly small distances each day. She can fly up to the top of our swing, 4 feet. My last one layed jumbo eggs and they were creamish white.

What type of feed do you give? And have a good night!

 

[JadeFarms]

What type of feed do you give? And have a good night!

I give her chick feed usually Nutrena brand since she’s not laying and she lives with 6 week olds. Don’t worry they get along fine surprisingly. And you have a good night too!

 

[BDutch]

I now realize that you probably meant if I had a separate pen for each rooster. I didn’t, I had one pen with a big flock of only roosters in it. I don’t have my bachelor pad anymore, but not because the roosters didn’t get along.

No, I meant one big seperated coop for you’re rooster community. No need to give them individual coops as long as there are no hens involved in this setup.
(Sorry, I am really Dutch , not a native English speaker and sometimes I don’t choose the right words to express myself )