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1. Chickens are therapeutic. Sit and watch how self - important they are as they waddle around pecking at things, and your problems shrink a bit. 2. Chickens are funny! 3. My cats never bothered my grown chickens. It was the other way around. 4. Even a bird dog can be trained to leave...

Wow! He's beautiful! 1st silkied serama I've ever seen.

I'm new to chickens. Our 1st too was a BO, and he was dreadful. We rehomed him, but that experience made me look harder at our Serama too. He and his mate don't free range with the others, and don't mix with them, but I've realized what a goo little fellow he is. He's pretty, he treats his...

Yes, the hens are much happier, there are many fewer feathers in our yard, the 2 young welsummer roos (and 3 females) are housed with the 9 older girls, and things are good. So far! We'll have to slee how the young roos turn out. But they already seem protective and considerate. I'm keeping...

Well, we gave the BO roo to a friend who has lots of chickens, a big Tom turkey, some ducks, and several file in her flock. She was sure her dominent roo would teach him some manners. She wrote me to say that he's doing well in her flock. Yay! Otherwise he was going to be someone's supper...

i've got 1 BO rooster about 13-14 weeks old. he ambushes my hens (same age) and pulls feathers out out of their necks and tails trying to mate. otherwise he seems to pay no attention to them, and frequently stays away from the hens, so i don't know if he'd be much protection to them. he...

Thanks for the info. He certainly doesn't do any circle dance! In the mornings, DH says he stamps his feet in front of them, and I've seen him do that once. I thought maybe that was courting behavior? I'll pounce on him when I see him ambushing a hen. I've done that before, but wasn't sure...

i have a 13 week old BO rooster. in the last 2 weeks, he's started attacking the hens and mounting them. he seems to like ambushing them. sometimes he gets what he wants, sometimes the hens stand up and flap their wings at him. either way, they squawk like murder. he seems uninterested in...

my mom always said not to boil the eggs. she said to boil the water, put in the eggs, heat just til boiling again, then put a lid on the pan and take it off the heat and let it sit for 15 minutes. she was quite a cook, and i've always done it that way, then cooled the eggs with cold water.

a few years ago, we had 3 white ducks. we were foolish and didn't pen them in the winter. the pond froze over, the neighbor's dogs killed them. (left a trail in the snow straight back to their home, and didn't eat the ducks.) my husband spoke politely to the neighbors.and asked them to keep...

wow--thanks for writing. i'm so new and ignorant about all of this that i didn't know about silkied seramas. i was just thinking that since seramas are said to be poor mothers, and silkies are said to be great ones, that i might get a silkie to raise any serama babies that may happen...

I'm just new to chickens, and last week, on impulse, i bought a pair of Seramas. After reading about them, I wonder if I could get a Silkie hen to place with them. Napoleon and Josephine are 5 months old. Should I get a 5 month old Silkie? Regular size, or small? Where would I find such a...

Does she really get along with them? Because I have 2 cats, both good hunters, and I'm hoping there will be no disasters. My chickens are about 6-7 weeks old now, so cats have NO access to them at this time....but there will come a day when they're adult and allowed out to free range while...