I feed them all Norco poultry feed fine quality layer mash it’s 17-18% protein they also get calcium grit and veggies such as carrots lettuce corn cauliflower but not too often and they also free range. Though my legbar has stopped laying for weeks. She used to be big and alpha in flock she...
My cream legbar on left of photos is the oldest chicken I have and she has shrunk smaller than my younger legbar. Her wattles are pale and sagged over and it’s been like this for ages I’ve wormed them all and flead them but she hasn’t changed anything, also her neck feathers are really pointy...
I will get another silkie as I have room for 1 more hen anyway until the chicks grow up and it’s only just tweedy and the silkie I have now so there’s no competition but I will do this thanks for the info
Hey yes I was thinking to buy another silkie so my silkie doesn’t feel alone, my legbar grew up with a silkie rooster but she was definitely higher in pecking order with her original flock of 3 and that silkie wasn’t bullied, my legbar also free ranges and only goes in coop to sleep. I kept new...
Hey, yes I’ve let them all supervised free range together and they are kinda too quick for tweedy to peck and she is nearly 5 months old. I have 3 different chicks not all silkies, a Japanese bantam and a pekin bantam and another cream legbar all 10 weeks old and the legbar actually tried to...
I have a Cream legbar hen(tweedy) which I’ve had from day one she is about 4 months old and she had 2 brothers she grew up with that I had to rehome because I can’t own roosters in my area sadly. But she was alone so I bought 3 10 week old chicks and 1 silkie which is nearly 6 months old to...