Young roosters

[RoostersAreAwesome]

2 roosters for 3 hens isn’t the best roo to hen ratio.

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You'll have less problems with them fighting if you don't bring in hens, unless you get 8-10 hens for each roo.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

2 roosters for 3 hens isn’t the best roo to hen ratio.

Maybe i'll just get a few more roosters then. All of my chickens are going to be inside most of the time when they are big enough to wear chicken diapers.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Maybe i'll just get a few more roosters then. All of my chickens are going to be inside most of the time when they are big enough to wear chicken diapers.

So they won't bother the neighbors. Usually in my neighborhood we don't socialize much and my neighbors kind of creep me out.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Are you allowed to have roosters in your neighborhood?

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Are you allowed to have roosters in your neighborhood?

I dont think so. But my chicks stay inside most of the time unless im in school. When they are outside I put them in a rectangular little play area with chicken wire around it. Theres a bale of hay against one of the shorter sides and a cat thing (like the ones on cat towers) and a bright orange stuffed moose that used to belong to my pet hamster (bear, he was a roborovski hamster) infront of the hay and there is a bowl with their food and water on the other side, which gives them enough space to play around and dustbathe in a little patch of dirt.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Its cold and windy and it looks like its gonna rain today so the chicks are staying in my room with the window open and their food and stuffed animal and a towel on the ground for them to lay down in. Also a cat toy to play with (a ball that jingles).

 

[MTRBLE]

I have seen that when I take my babies from crumbles to pellets, eventually they start to eat, maybe mix their food with hardboiled eggs to give'm protein and electrolights in their water would be helpful.

Thank you for the info
Is there specific things to for chickens with the electrolytes or does diluted Pedialyte or Gatorade work? And since you said hard boiled eggs specifically would that mean scrambled eggs wouldn't be the same? I know cooking things different ways changes what stays in them. I just happened to have some leftover scrambled eggs from last night that I could over this morning, but I don't want to if it is not the same for them.

 

[MTRBLE]

Maybe try feeding them wet crumbles? If they're roosters, it would be a better idea to not feed them layer pellets at all. If they were mine, I would feed them wet flock raiser or grower feed and see if they eat that.

What is flock raiser and grower feed? I've gone into Tractor supply, and they just keep telling me they should eat the pellets for the protein to help them keep warm but don't have anything or answers to what to feed them since they don't need to have hardened eggshells. Maybe its there and I just don't know what I am looking for or not explaining myself to them very well.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Should i start making my chickens sleep outside? I always bring them in to sleep in a box next to me with pine shavings so they are comfortable. Am i spoiling them? Also, whenever i have peas i give them a spoonful or two (i have to find my own food at my house, because no one makes dinner) and i give them some broccoli or tomatoes or some fruit that i save from my school lunch. My sister says i spoil them way too much...

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Since you’re not allowed to have roosters you should definitely let them sleep inside.