Our beautiful Snowball has been giving some serious Roo energy. Big legs, much larger than our other chicks, most aggressive/adventurous, and some curled tail feathers BUT no dark or brown chest feathers. 7 week old Easter Egger. Any thoughts? Luckily will be able to keep Snowball regardless but...
I've got 3 baby roos, all are mixed but I can list the parents below.
2 of them have fluffy cheeks and those came from Easter Egger hens.
The other came from a Chocolate Orphington hen.
My rooster is Lavendar Orphington x Golden Laced Wyandotte
$5 each - Calhoun GA
Helloo, my flock was just having a dust bath and I was sitting around nearby and I hear a purring sound, I set out to investigate and find it was my rooster and later he was again doing it in the nesting box.
Anyone know what this noise means?
Thank you!!
Hey, my rooster's comb is has gotten this blue purple ish colour on the outside of it as shown in the picture. He wasn't like this yesterday and no other chicken is like this.
Anyone know what this means? Thank you!!
We got this rooster from someone who couldn’t have them. They got chicks and one was a rooster, they couldn’t remember the breed. He has random black splats on his tail feathers but is other wise blonde. TIA
Hi BYC family!
I am looking to replace my rooster (my sweet Randy was lost to a raccoon about 2 weeks ago) I live in an area with HEAVY predator pressure - main offenders are owls, hawks, foxes, raccoons, and coyotes. Since Randy died, I’ve already had 3 hens get eaten by a Fox 😣
So I’m looking...
Hello fellow chicken friends. I have grown up with chickens my whole life living at my mom and dads and recently became married and bought a house. We had an existing coop with a small run that was already on property. We ripped out the old run and built a 15’x20’ run. We purchased 20 chicks...
So lately all of the hens were broody, I know crazy... They all broke from their broody phase after not hatching any eggs (we used fakes since they were all broody, after they all left their nesting boxes we noticed that the rooster was a little overwhelmed with all the hens back and active, I'm...
Hello.
In the afternoon, I have noticed one of my roosters - Rocky - has a nostril cut in half...!!
Here is a picture :
I actually don't know if I have to do something for him : Rocky is not in pain, and his cut is not bloody or nothing...
...I am afraid he would hurt himself - because...
I have 7 splash laces red Wyandotte chickens, it’s my first time having chickens. They are a little over 2 months old, and I have one that has more developed facial growth and is much bigger and aggressive then the others, did we get a rooster? I have attached two pictures of it and a third to...
This rooster has 10 ladies in play & 5 have raw backs? i need to decide whether or not to eliminate him from the flock. Right now he's separated. 1 is in currently in home hospital because of weakness.
Our son was checking on his flock this morning when the rooster attacked him. He kicked to keep him away. In doing so the rooster seemed to dislocate his leg. Our son feels just sick about it, even though he was protecting himself(the rooster still got his claws into him).
He’s not sure what to...
Hi all,
about a week ago i noticed one of the neighborhood roosters in my yard with what appeared to be black gunk all over his head (my first thought was someone did something cruel and dumped something hot on him but honestly idk). he looked wretched, but at the time i was not intending to...