Hi, I just registered here because I'm new to the backyard chicken game and have lots of questions. I happened upon the site and thought it looked like a great place to find some answers. I have 5 chickens in my yard. I received 4 of them as chicks on Mother's Day in May of 2010 and I aquired another one from a neighbor a few weeks later. So my flock of 5 is now around 5 months old. One of the five ended up being a rooster. I have started finding some tiny little eggs a few days a week! woo hoo! It seems as though only one of the 4 is laying, and I'm waiting to see the others get the hang of it. Lately though I've started having the bad feeling that I only have one hen...I started looking at the others thinking, they have awfully large combs and wattles to be hens. But only one of the flock crows....could it be that I have multiple roosters and they don't crow, sort of leaving the crowing to the chosen one or something like that? My flock is 2 Rhode Island Reds - 2 Plymouth Barrington and the one from my neighbor is black with a fluffy head and feet, sorry don't know the names. I will learn as I go along. The one from the neighbor is the youngest and I think she is my layer and she does not have a big comb or wattle as the other 4 do.
Thanks for reading!
Allie
Blaine Washington
Thanks for reading!
Allie
Blaine Washington
