I am not sure, but even at 12 weeks old females usually still don't have hardly any comb at all. If they are only 12 weeks old I would say most likely all cockerels. Sorry, :idunnoWhat makes me say that is just because at 12 weeks old all of my pullets still had no combs or wattles. Here is a...
For a good layer, I would recommend pearl white leghorns. Ours are about a year and 4 months old and none of them have missed a single day of laying an egg. And ours seem to be very friendly, towards us, and new birds, but I don’t know if it’s just because there was 4 kids always holding them...
I have realized that! I have the chicks fenced brooder in the run that I have another food and water station on, and when a chicken goes after a young one, the young one will jump up on it, but the older hen is always too lazy to do the same. 😆
Thank you everyone! I really wish I could make like a (portal) kind of thing, but the chicks are the same size as most of the older flock now. I really think the best option is to cage up the meanies, but the thing is, I just don’t have a big enough space to keep 3 birds separate from the rest...
Yes they have been in a (look-no touch) situation for about 5 weeks and I have been having the hardest time integrating the (2, 12 week old chicks in with our 4 red stars and 3 pearl white leghorn hens that are about a year and 3 months old. Half of the flock is fine with the chicks being...
Hi everyone! I really need ideas for cluttering my chicken run! I am integrating two chicks in with my existing flock and I read that there should be clutter in the run while they are getting used to each other. Thanks everyone!
Yes! She did!! :celebratea couple days later, we went to cvs and got tums. Started giving her that, and after 5 days she layed an egg again! She is now doing great! 😊
I have been working with them for a while now and things are getting much better. Still not to the point where I would leave them unsupervised though, 🫤. I usually cage up the two bullies and then let all the others be together, and that seems great 😊. But then after a bit I will let the...
Yes exactly, the young ones don’t go close to the hens and they still attack them, even when they aren’t close. They don’t just go after the male, they go after the female as well, in fact I think that they mainly go after her. I wondered if it was because she was small? And I think that the...