Greetings from Scotland

[SilverBirds]

Welcome to BYC! The others have given you good advice. Best of luck!

 

[Sammster]

Is so nice to have you formally join the group. I hope your rooster issues are soon resolved. It sounds like you have aovely flock ~ who is very lucky to have you. Their names are awesome ♡

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[Little Tala Bug]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!
Glad you decided to de-lurk!
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Thanks for joining our community!

Thank you Sean!

 

[Little Tala Bug]

Welcome to BYC! The others have given you good advice. Best of luck!

Is so nice to have you formally join the group. I hope your rooster issues are soon resolved. It sounds like you have aovely flock ~ who is very lucky to have you. Their names are awesome ♡

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

Thank you all! Didn't realise the welcome messages had started on a whole new page =) What a lovely bunch of birdbrains on this forum! XD

 

[Boppo]

Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC. Shadrach, who replied to you very early, wrote about roosters that he watched running feral in Catalonia. Their behavior might give you some insights and hope about the interactions between your older rooster and Johnny Cashew (which is a clever name). Best wishes taking care of all your birds!

 

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska!

 

[triciayoung]

Thank you Tricia... it is an honour to share my home with these lovely animals =)

And it is an honor to meet someone that stepped up to take care of them when no one else did.

 

[Little Tala Bug]

Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC. Shadrach, who replied to you very early, wrote about roosters that he watched running feral in Catalonia. Their behavior might give you some insights and hope about the interactions between your older rooster and Johnny Cashew (which is a clever name). Best wishes taking care of all your birds!

This article was an absolute pleasure to read and made so much sense regarding the behaviour I have observed from my chickens. It makes me want to free range them on even more pasture eventually, and give them the woods, too. William spent most of his time outside the acre of chicken yard today, but was letting himself back in, so it might turn out that way whether I like it or not! We are fairly remote and on a private gravel road so it's relatively safe for him in terms of human activity.

When I cooped my chickens tonight, I arrived a bit early to observe their sorting behaviour. William's hens clearly still fancy him, and were going to visit him, so I lured Johnny into the big coop with his main hens and then scattered some food around William at the small coop so he could tuktuk his girls over to him. He even mated with one of them! She crouched for him before he even had to do anything so there's definitely still loyalty there.

I ended up cooping him with his mate and a junior hen from our Welsummer batch, as she has been spending most days alone in a holly bush. Maybe they will form a new tribe and things will settle down. <3

 

[Little Tala Bug]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska!

Thank you and hello!