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  1. Mrs. K

    Planning to expand my flock....

    I always start with a plan...and never follow it. Just a week ago, looking for a white egg laying rooster...yeah, getting one from a former student, he is pretty, nice, raised in a multigenerational flock, and coming on a year old. Checks enough boxes for me.
  2. Mrs. K

    Planning to expand my flock....

    I think you will be quite happy with these. Just know I have been in this hobby and never do my plans follow through.
  3. Mrs. K

    Rooster problem

    You didn’t get a good rooster. IMO it is mostly genetic and hormonal. You can pull him out of the flock and wait 2 months, maybe he will improve, but often not. The best way to get a good rooster is not to keep a rotten one.
  4. Mrs. K

    Planning to expand my flock....

    What you wrote is you want more eggs, but heavier dual purpose birds are low egg producers. Once I read, dual purpose are better egg producers than meat birds, and more meat than egg layers, but really not good at either. If more eggs is what you want, I would add some production reds to the...
  5. Mrs. K

    Quarantine logistics for several hens

    I have done this numerous times and had pretty good results. Either putting them under a broody, or raising them in the garage for a couple of weeks and then off to the coop.
  6. Mrs. K

    Moving with chickens

    No, I do understand that. Consider contacting a 4-h group, or checking at the feed store - maybe there is someone where you could go visit your flock. Another option, is to sell part of them? Is there a way to add a small yard to the coop? Do you have pictures? Pictures always help. Mrs K
  7. Mrs. K

    Flock has stopped going into the coop at night

    How old are your birds? What are the dimensions of the coop. I think it is because there is more space in the barn. Chicken like space and height. If you coop is less than 56 square feet, so 7 feet x 8 feet, and at least 6 feet high - with three roosters - bare minimum. In their opinion, the...
  8. Mrs. K

    Introducing 2 hens to 1 existing hen

    When you add the new birds, put her in the cage inside the run, for the day time, let the new birds go around the run, find the feed bowls, find the hide outs, roosts. This allows them to get some territorial rights, and to explore without being chased for their lives. Do this for two or three...
  9. Mrs. K

    Bent toes? Should I be concerned?

    I would not worry about it, but I would not breed from her.
  10. Mrs. K

    Moving with chickens

    Sematics are important when we from afar try and give advice. Coop often means a hutch or shed, some type of building. They are often limited in space and light, but offer protection from the weather. Where as the run, is a fenced yard outside, with fresh air, shade, sunlight and generally...
  11. Mrs. K

    Purple comb and hen not eating

    Often times a blue comb is a sign of a poor heart. Really that is genetic and there is not anything you can do about it. A lot of chickens are not real long lived. What people can do, is give them a good life and accept that a lot of this is out of our control. Mrs K
  12. Mrs. K

    Considering a second rooster

    No, I would not add him. The more roosters you have the greater the chance of it going wrong. They don't call it cockfighting for nothing. Now if you are going to cull the old boy, well then yes go ahead and get him after you cull. Are all of your birds bantams? Because that would really give...
  13. Mrs. K

    What AGE am I?

    In your pictures also make clear pictures of legs and feet, and beaks for better estimations. From the picts you have, chicken 1 the black bird is the youngest, I would guess less than 18 months, maybe less than a year. Chicken 2 is older than the black bird, maybe 1-2 years. Chicken 3 is...
  14. Mrs. K

    Quarantine logistics for several hens

    Your problem is why a lot of people pretend to quarantine. Because doing it in a typical backyard is impossible. So they cheat and cross their fingers, thing is if you cheat, you may as well not do it at all. Now the big question is what you are risking. If you would go into a state of decline...
  15. Mrs. K

    Chicken Math To Consider For Small Additions

    The best thing to consider in chicken math is subtraction. How do you remove unwanted birds, or too many birds or too many roosters or too old of birds - so that the number of birds fit in the coop that you actually have.
  16. Mrs. K

    Most docile large breed rooster?

    You know, with the older people - I think I would just skip having a rooster. They most often will be the first to be attacked, and if they don't have chicken experience or livestock experience - I think I would skip the whole rooster deal.
  17. Mrs. K

    I’m so proud of them !

    It is ridiculously fun! Even yet, after years of having chickens, finding eggs in the nest is a favorite part of my day.
  18. Mrs. K

    Tiny eggs

    Size of the egg is due more to genetics and age, nothing you can do about it.
  19. Mrs. K

    How many chickens? What kind?

    Hello from SD. I am on the prairie east of the hills. I hope you are not near the fires! Think of this as a several year plan. If people ask me, and you did (kind of) I recommend a hen only flock the first year or two. Do you have children under 6 years of age? IMO roosters take more...
  20. Mrs. K

    Fertility Issues

    I have never heard of breeders rations.
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