It's been about a year, no damage. I haven't noticed any food theft. The outside does get dirty but no rust or anything. The inside is completely dry although because of the opening, the food there is the most exposed to ambient moisture so it might make some of the powdered feed to clump up. If...
Males seem noticeably lighter in general compared to female chicks. To continue autosexing, you have to just breed the progeny to test if they pass on barring but its a percentage game at that point.
Here are my anecdotes:
2 Cream Legbar roosters one the son of the other. Raised relatively unbullied by other hens and raised as the sole rooster, I handfed them and petted them often in an attempt to acclimatise them to touch. One somewhat avoided me, the other i raised from chick often ran up...
I want to sell some Male Cream Legbar X Female Black Rumpless Araucana chicks but I wonder what's standard practice if any when you sell chicks that aren't sex-linked and can't guarantee if they're male or not. I'll discount the price for the unknown factor but do people generally buy like this...
I don't get it, if both parents have one blue egg gene, don't you have a 25% chance the offspring will inherit two recessive non blue egg genes? In that case it's not guaranteed. Blue egg genes are dominant but that doesn't meant they will pass on to progeny
So I have a flock of 1 CL rooster, 5 CL hens (3 of those are progeny of the older 2), one rumpless black Araucana.
I've hatched 4 CL chicks, it was very obvious that the male chick was the only one with the white spot on it's head. He i
I decided to have a hatch of 10 very similar looking blue...
That's the egg song? My egg song I'm familiar with my flock is the bawk bawk bawk bawk BAWKAWWW sequence. This seems different, it's missing a syllable and its a higher note
https://voca.ro/1iUg9AHWxEyx
They do this chorus for maybe 5 minutes at a time occasionally throughout the morning and afternoon.
Does it mean anything?
I have 8 chickens and a rooster.
He looks so dashing! Okay so he is well behaved around me but I give him space and respect his boundaries in a way that I can afford. That means I try not to walk a path through him and I just stand there until he moves away. Try not to eyeball him or show that I'm watching him unless he's...
So I've had two CCL roosters one the son of the other. Both of them chased females around and try to grip them wherever they can get a hold off. The sounds the hens make are quite unpleasant but I've seen videos of chicken courting behaviour like rooster doing a little tap dance to woo the hens...
Next time I may try that just for males but the whole premise of my hand rearing and physical content is constant acclimation with positive reinforcement.