Sounds like you have a busy day!
Yeah I don’t have a lot of room for a rooster pen…but might have to find the room!
Wait I must have missed a page or two during surgery last week - she made the team!!! Thats awesome! I'm do happy for her!
I just have my original lil coop with the 8 sqft run I built on to it for my original 4.Yeah I don’t have a lot of room for a rooster pen…but might have to find the room!
Yeah that sounds perfect for little dudes! I bought myself a mini circular saw so I might try my hand at a simple coop and run for the boys this winter! When it’s NOT 115 outside.
Yeah...I've seen it mellow out and it isn't too bad. But I just hate this stage so much and I wonder if lil Lizzy does too and she's on strike by not sleeping with em all on their porch!
Yes she did!!!! She is a happy little girl! Except that today during practice they were doing stunts. Problem was, the girls she is stunting with (in her grade level) wasn’t there today. One had an appointment and honestly glad she did. She has been having some medical problems and happens to be my daughters best friend out of the cheerleaders. The other just didn’t go, she went to Dairy Queen instead I guess. Then the other, we have no idea. She may have just not been feeling well. So my little girl didn’t get to do much today. But she watched and practiced by doing on her own. And to be honest I don’t want her being a flyer due to her potential of having problems coming of it.
One of the things I like about the rubber tub is that the texture of it seems good for baby feet. When I started with peas I had a hard time with the humidity. I was using a homemade incubator and new to hatching, so I struggled that whole first year to get that figured out. During that year I got a few babies with curled toes that needed some assistance to get them straightened out. The rubber tub texture just seem to me to help as much as homemade bird boots.
Chicken math strikes again! Bonded pairs only count as one right?It really is pretty adorable...he may be moving himself back into the keep him group...my big lavender Orpington rooster has started acting a bit skittish and makes me slightly nervous...so he may be the one to go instead. It's just so hard because they are always the prettiest chickens!! And he and Roxy are so bonded, but I don't want to give her up! Sighhh why can't it be simple?
What a good idea! I only saved the numbers for two people...one that I think bought my birds to resell and one that I thought was so adorable that I ended up giving them some birds for free...lol.Mark people in your phone. I do emojis
That sounds about like my coops these days!I don't really know where the limit is to be honest! In the big chicken run, I have Fluff )weighs almost 8 lbs!) and Emilio (bantam) and Spider and Lunch (even smaller bantam) and MAYBE Josephine/Joe. There are 12 for sure hens in that run...so the biggest issue is overusing the hens once the Polish get old enough to mate. I do have 5 more pullets waiting to be integrated in that run though, so that will make it 5:17.
In the bantam run, I have the big Orpington boy, Ruby the buff bantam, Rolly my itty bitty EE, and Bruno the OD rooster. In that run it is 4:9 but I also have 4 baby bantams (would be nice if they were all girls but highly unlikely!) now that I can add to the group in the future.
And in the "far away so I can limit their chances of getting MG" coop, I have 5 tiny boys and only 3 tiny ladies...so I need more of them but hoping I can hatch more instead of buying more. I guess time will tell!
But yes, 11 of the 14 are cockerels so it sort of depends on how they all mature! Plus my husband doesn't enjoy all the crowing Haha, oh well! He can't say no to Aria either so we will keep the faith!
I used to do the same. 1 roo just seemed best. The last few years I've gone chicken nuts though. The year my kids got me my first yokos and oegbs...I spent sooo much time just sitting on the wall in the garden next to their baby pen and watching them. I just didn't want to get rid of any of any of them. Multiple roosters has been working out well though so far...well, as long as the separate flocks are let out one at a time. Nutters would definitely say multiple roos sucked.
Poor Lizzy! Hopefully at least one boy will reach the point where he starts calling the ladies to him with treats and tidbits, and plopping himself into possible nesting spots and calling the ladies to come inspect it etc. A mature good rooster knows how to charm his ladies quite sweetly!
. It was just hubby and the kids since we don't have any relatives close. Too much food, lots of chatter and just the pleasure of really not doing much at all...lol.
, I'll take him back out and reintegrate him with the young flock.
Yay Schultz! I’m hoping to see him make a full recovery!Family time was really good
Schultz is a little better today. He seems more active...he actually looked perky and had that normal cocky posture when he ran up to greet me. Well, faster then slow walk...lol.
So I tentatively think he'll be ok. Hes still not perching or jumping up on me...but he's standing pretty steady when I pick him up. He got some melon, plumb and bread scraps today and did a pretty good job of gobbling them up. Not his normal greed level but no competition for the treats either.
When he starts trying to perch for bed again
He has gentle eyes that’s always a good sign in my book 
