I will try this with the white hen and see if the eggs that hatch are quieter. We know several people that have roosters, will see if they can lend us a rooster.
We got rid of the roosters 2 months ago, they all went through a mourning period where they barely ate and were not laying as many eggs for a few weeks (we took the eggs they were laying and hatched them (7 in incubator and 3 with the hen in avatar pic) so now we have 10 more plus 3 more pullets...
My neighbors complained about my roosters so I had to get rid of them. Now that my roosters are gone, 2 of my hens take turns and make a lot of noise throughout the day. We want to avoid the city telling us we need to get rid of all our hens. Is there any chicken breed that is naturally...
I have 8 hens and hatched 10 chicks 4 weeks ago, the times that they have gotten out while I am trying to replace their feed and water, only the bottom of the pecking order and my trouble making hen attacked them. They are otherwise left alone. My suggestion would be to introduce them when they...
I use Henhouse and Chickhouse Reserve for my hens and baby chicks. They hated it. They don't like scratch or pellet feed so would not touch it. I then started to mix the Henhouse/ Chickhouse Reserve with pellet feed (crumble feed for the baby chicks) and soak it so the pellets in Kalmbach feed...
Yes, they would wait until they were sure I was not going to feed them the treats and then go and start eating their food. Now they eat their food just fine, no fussy eating.
Yes, that is Billy, my nephew named it. My son named Wilson(later turned it to Wilma cuz it has fast feather growth), Alan and Ryan, the 3 black baby chicks after his favorite YouTubers,🤷♀️ LOL. The red baby chicks have still not been named, so I might need to name them. They did name the new...
UPDATE- The 2 yellow chicks and the black chick are once again in the possible cockerel list. I am now of the opinion that these are sex linked; yellow for male and chipmunk for female. The other yellow baby chick with the black line on its head has a rose comb that is now changing color as...
For some strange reason it is not letting me upload pictures so these are screen shots, hopefully they are not too blurry. But of the 4 that I thought might be males, I went and narrowed it down to 3 because they have slower feather growth, but of those 3, we are thinking that the one perched on...
Thank you! We took away the free access to fruits and they seem to be eating their feed just fine now. They do prefer sprouted grains over dry, so I will try fermenting their food and see if they like it.
I actually agree with the Welsummer comment for the one I said was a Wyandotte, I was mixing up my 2 breeds. the Wyandotte have a flat rose comb and as chicks they have speckling around the head and this one has a single comb as a chick and a slight line on top of the head.
img 5392 looks like my black australorps did at that age and the 5399 one is a white leghorn. 5409 might be the wyandotte. ETA- I don't think they will be able to fit in that container much longer. They already look super cramped in there.
3 WEEK OLD UPDATE
Today I went outside to feed the hens and baby chicks and noticed that Billy, the baby chick with the orange head and slow feather growth in img_1322, has a single comb that is turning pink and has more noticeable growth than the other fast feather growth baby chicks' combs...
They would eat a few grains and leave the pellets because they are too hard and that's the part that has all the nutritional benefits, SMH. I am just glad they ate it wet. They started to lay less eggs, in the last 7 days, they went from 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, and 3 today. Hopefully now that they...