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Do they get along with the larger chickens? Visa versa without saying....

:D If you teach them with a hamster your chickens will be ok..... Sorry.

It really depends upon you neighbors. For example I live in an rural area that is not wealthy but is packed with avid hunters. Coyotes are usually taken care of readily, and our neighbors have several akias. My dog is a varmint finding 70 lb mutt, and we have two mini-donkeys that live in the...

It's also after Easter.

They are hard on the hens, but that may be because they are no acclimated to living in a flock with hens. We had 8 leghorn roos that were dominant over the 25 welsummers, but dogs took 7 of them out. :( They are more docile in truth than leghorns. Our most docile are in the hen flock and...

These two brothers are entering their 3rd summer in a 20 rooster "rooster flock". No injuries occur when they act up, and these birds free range 24 hours a day roosting in my dedicated thousand foot hayloft....in this pic they suspect me of having corn in my pocket...I did not but they...

Five kittens and momma are doing fine. 4 black and one completely grey. Gonna spay or neuter all and keep them apparently.... I am not sure about native songbirds, there were a lot here when my parents were but I don't feed them. Unless the 20 roosters that free range 24/7 fall into...

The shelter does that for sure. We are on a farm next to farms and woods. Any cat you throw a chicken breast chunk to will stay, and she got too attached to let them live as all the cats here do. With a couple of hundred chickens we have mice everywhere and the neighbors all have yard cats...

I spoke with the shelter, it's almost a no-kill and they have no pregnant cats at this time, so a high probability of adoption. We made a donation.

We are getting even with the city folks. We attracted a cat to our country home, and it had 5 kittens which are 3 weeks now. These do not enter our house and live in my shop. Another stray adopted our porch in the meantime and is pregnant, very. Lying on concrete and all. We have a lot of...

We had some from a friend who provided a tray of 30 from a pantry surplus. Runny. Luckily we used them for holiday cooking other than egg dishes (and for our porch cats). Shame indeed. We have 200+ hens to boot. The barn was pealing with the the resounding laughter of too many roosters....

Please more details on this bird's nature, you were fighting a hen??? That is pretty wrong in many ways.....

As to rooster's aggressiveness? I have 25 free ranging roosters, free ranging 24 hours a day with them roosting up in my hayloft. They have lived peacefully together for several years now, with a few losses to the neighbors trio of dogs. Young varmints and aggressive cats do not fare well. I...

2 feet deep is a bit of overkill. 2 foot out from your fence/coop in a skirt will work.

As they attack me I swat them with an open hand. It hurts my feet as they hit, even through insulated muck boots. As they have aged to two years old they now only peck the ground around me. It's like prison when you have 25 24 hour free ranging roosters clustered around 200 hens in a pen, all...