Which BYC member scares you?

[EverythingDucks]

 

[589205]

I’m happy @Isadora has returned and is doing well. You go girl!

Also, as for my hatching this year…out of 46 total - only 33 of them were cockerels.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

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Very cute!
Tell me about this behaviour (gently pecking beaks). I see some of my girls do it fairly often. Are they sharing food? Grooming beaks? Showing affection? Something else?

 

[WallyG74]

I’m happy @Isadora has returned and is doing well. You go girl!

Also, as for my hatching this year…out of 46 total - only 33 of them were cockerels.

You had a year like I did.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Very cute!
Tell me about this behaviour (gently pecking beaks). I see some of my girls do it fairly often. Are they sharing food? Grooming beaks? Showing affection? Something else?

All of my chickens do it. They also gently peck around each others' eyes. When I first observed this, I thought they were hurting each other. But I have come to relize that they are, in fact, grooming one another.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

My cockerels have begun having crow wars with each other. I told them that if they keep it up, I will hold their beaks under water until the bubbles stop.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

My cockerels have begun having crow wars with each other. I told them that if they keep it up, I will hold their beaks under water until the bubbles stop.

Did they listen?

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Did they listen?

Until a group of obnoxious teenagers went by that like to crow at them. Then I let them go. Their voices are much louder than those of the nasty children, and I prefer their voices.

I also encourage them to crow when the he/she thing next door starts its screaming. It hates the sound of the cockerels, and I hate Its sounds.

 

[RUNuts]

Use number 5 of chickens. Annoy the neighbors. One of the many benefits.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Use number 5 of chickens. Annoy the neighbors. One of the many benefits.

Although I do feel bad for the few good neighbors we have. But no one has complained, with the exception of He Who Shall Not Be Named. The others all seem very interested in the birds. In a good way.