rjkreutzer -- Newbie 12-28-2012

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rjkreutzer

Chirping
11 Years
Dec 28, 2012
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Iuka, Ms, USA
I was exposed to chicken harvesting in Jr High school, my parents setup a Coop with a farmer , he raised the chickens and other animals, we helped butcher.
I'm now 60, helped raised 4 children, 1 cat, 3 dogs. My Wife of 28 Years helped raise me. She was not exposed to Chickens till I shared the information that I was going to setup a coup in the back yard Before New Years this year.
Built the coup from scratch (Will share photos later), Should be big enough to support 12 chickens. Have 6 at the moment.
Started with 5 chickens no rooster, two are laying, had for 3 weeks. Neighbor had a rooster he said I could have. this Morning I introduced the rooster to the flock. Then the party began, He crowed, two of my "hens" crowed back. till today I had not had any crowing in my backyard just the bawk-bawk of hens and was I little taken aback.
Went online to see what info was available on crowing hens? found Back yard chickens.com and a couple of others but I like the feel of BYC.
Mollie is our Border Collie, she is doing her best to be a good chicken herder.
As I am not a english major I write slow, so will add to this thread later

Thanks
Richard & Celeste
 
Hello and welcome to BYC
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I've heard of hens crowing and I had the privilege to see it once, but crowing back at the rooster! Hope they didn't confuse the poor boy!
 
Update - Feb 19,2013
Crowing "hen", turns out 2 of my birds where immature males. 2 weeks after I introduced the mature rooster, they bloomed with full head gear. Had too many roosters in the hen house. Returned the mature rooster after a month of letting him teach my two ( he did his job, and the hens knew who was taking care of them.) we ordered chicks (Delaware), got them today, 27 little bundles of energy. We have them setup in the laundry room. next project is to make the coop bigger. This is fun but the more I learn, the more I don't know. Knowledge with a purpose is much easier to retain.


This is CIC - chicken in charge
I'll come back later and add more
Thanks for being here
Richard, Celeste and Crew
 

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