Raising Chicks has been a Joy

[Parront]

That is awesome! you have a great mix. Well I will be happy when the whites let the browns sleep on the roost without me intervening

The rooster will take over the intervening when they start laying! Mine will put himself between a hen and the one she is picking on. It is funny to watch! Then he mates the trouble making hen (usually a White Rock).

 

[Grandmas Coop]

The rooster will take over the intervening when they start laying! Mine will put himself between a hen and the one she is picking on. It is funny to watch! Then he mates the trouble making hen (usually a White Rock).

Oh I hope so, amazingly enough, Bob Rooster has been very good with the chicks, better than the hens have. He has gotten after the once I saw, he too didnt want them on the roost. I may have to make another root rack.

 

[Parront]

Oh I hope so, amazingly enough, Bob Rooster has been very good with the chicks, better than the hens have. He has gotten after the once I saw, he too didnt want them on the roost. I may have to make another root rack.

The old birds might want to guard their spot, but if there is enough space they can't guard all of it! Mine fight over who gets to roost next to the rooster! Lower ranked girls have to sleep on the far ends. It is very interesting to watch them.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

The old birds might want to guard their spot, but if there is enough space they can't guard all of it! Mine fight over who gets to roost next to the rooster! Lower ranked girls have to sleep on the far ends. It is very interesting to watch them.

Thats what the 3 year olds did with the current one year old, but there wasnt a 3 year old rooster, now rooster is one yr.


this was this morning while I was scooping under the 2 roosts, I moved one of them so I could scoop,



This pic was 6-20,


this is the normal set up


but now I have 2 feeders in there so the young ones can eat

 

[Parront]

Thats what the 3 year olds did with the current one year old, but there wasnt a 3 year old rooster, now rooster is one yr.


this was this morning while I was scooping under the 2 roosts, I moved one of them so I could scoop,
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This pic was 6-20,
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this is the normal set up
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but now I have 2 feeders in there so the young ones can eat

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You would think that the young ones had cooties! Yes, on the extra feeders. I have one with all flock for the rooster and non-layers, and one with layer. The layers eat all the all flock, so then I have to put out oyster shell.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

You would think that the young ones had cooties! Yes, on the extra feeders. I have one with all flock for the rooster and non-layers, and one with layer. The layers eat all the all flock, so then I have to put out oyster shell.

yes, grower in one and Scratch & Peck Layer Pellets in the other,
I posted a bad boy bob rooster story on my other thread this morning,
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sitn-on-the-porch.1297783/page-102

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Grandma ... where did you get your Leghorn chicks from?

I am sorry, I dont know if I ever answered you
I get my chickens from Murray McMurray Hatchery
https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/index.html

 

[Grandmas Coop]

@GrandmaDeKorte10 so are you saying they started laying eggs at 17 weeks?

I was wrong-- 19 weeks I got the first egg, And I see I posted on Nov. 9th 2018 all 6 hens were laying eggs

 

[Grandmas Coop]

I did a fun walk down memory lane starting with page #1, from March 2014
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ff-orpingtons-and-a-buff-orph-rooster.861337/

Then I did this thread starting June 2018.

WOW< what a lot of work has been put in to raising and keeping chickens.
I have loved every minute of it

 

[Grandmas Coop]

9 & 8 weeks old, everyone is doing great




a bit of chest bumping going on hehehehe yesterday,
quite the stair down whit these two