Check them all over in the same spot as the rooster is bald. You're looking for what could be the start of what he gots.
Just little black dots? And are you sure the rooster has mites? I didn't see any on him when I checked 2 days ago.
No, that's where he's been plucked. I'm saying do a mite check because that can sometimes be a reason for balding, though I doubt that's the case. I'm thinking flock mates plucked him.
Ok.....I'm also thinking boredom.
Possibly.Ok.....I'm also thinking boredom.
I recently measured the chicken run and did the math with my current flock and it turns out that each bird has 16.5 sq footage of space. What could be wrong?
I was told I could keep them on grower/starter and oyster shell their entire lives because I had a rooster in the flock and it would work perfectly fine.
No. You can, but shouldn't. I've fed layer pellets to rooster before, and they were fine. The protein is more important. Whenever my birds didn't have the layer pellets early, I had problems, and some wasn't to be fixed...
Ok. I'll switch asap. Is it ok to give them layer crumble at first since they're used to crumble?
I wean them. Just a little of pellets mixed in at first, then add a little bit more every feeder fill time. (One scoop to first feeder time, then two, then three, until they're completely switched.)
