Official Squatch Watchers

[TexasSam]

Mmm feed me I'll do anything got brownies

Uumm

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Uumm

Oh behave

 

[TexasSam]

When your rooster grabs your hen’s neck, do they yell out? Yeti has been after the ladies today, he may need a time out.

They always yell out at first. If they are lifting there tail up then no worries. If they stay yelling and trying to run then time out

 

[TexasSam]

Oh behave

 

[21hens-incharge]

Damit now I'm getting some fudge and a few pecan sandies see what you did

Mmmmmmmm pecan Sandie's.
Never was able to master the "just a few" part though.


Sassy I would give him a solid time out. He's still a cockerel and learning his manners. Like Sam said if it is against their will he needs to learn that " no means no".

 

[21hens-incharge]

I am for reals going to bed now. Gotta let those nutty bars settle into place.

 

[BantyChooks]

That is cheating bad.

I felt so bad!!

Mmm feed me I'll do anything got brownies

Would you... clean my house???

When your rooster grabs your hen’s neck, do they yell out? Yeti has been after the ladies today, he may need a time out.

Pullets do, the hens give in silently.

 

[TexasSam]

I made a Banty whoopie pie

 

[MrsMistyReal]

I felt so bad!!


Would you... clean my house???


Pullets do, the hens give in silently.

I'll do anything clean, cook, errands, anything

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Don't know I just heard it somewhere. I heard banana peels and raw potatoes and citrus are bad for them as well

There is a list on BYC of ok and not ok to feed. I boil potatoes for mine. I toss dead bananas to them and let them open them. They don’t eat the peels but get everything off of them they can.

Funny how different their tastes are. Mine love greens ...especially cabbage and kale. They also love sweet potatoes, broccoli and cucumbers. They won't touch apples or pears

Ha! Mine eat anything with seeds. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, pears, strawberries. None of it lasts. Their spoiled rotten too. If the cucumber or apple has thick skin they won’t eat it unless I cut it open for them. Then they leave the skin. Thin skin, I can’t find a bite left.

Oh but you can teach them to try it. Chop it up small and put it in a pan or something and sit in the run. Make like you are eating it and its really yummy. Put the pan on the ground and tap the pan with your finger and make "look its yummy" noises like the roosters do. Or put mealworms in with it. They may learn to like it. I taught lots of goats to eat things they were suspicious of. I never had a problem with chickens eating most stuff. Except those fake potatoes they sell at KFC with gravy. They hated that, refused to eat it.

I sit in the run with them and hand out food. They’ll take the greens and run off. Come back and take more. Then I find the greens trampled and pooped on. Like kids hiding their veggies in their napkin. They will pick out the grubblies and leave what they don’t want.

When your rooster grabs your hen’s neck, do they yell out? Yeti has been after the ladies today, he may need a time out.

Sometimes. It’s mostly my older girls who don’t think my young cockerels are good enough.