I will add that he doesn't constantly target me. Sometimes when I'm just sitting down and being still in the coop he acts just fine. It's when I'm moving around and my hands and arms get 'too close' to him while I'm taking care of my chickens and he isn't focused on food or water.
Rooster was just fine until the hens started sharing the same coop with them roughly 2 or 3 years ago. Now he's a menace, and I thought it was just mating season at first but he's a menace every season of the year.
He will always attack my shoes any time they get near.
80% time my hands get too...
Update: it's at least 25,000 words now and I'm revising it (and falling in love with the story again as I do). I took a couple of months off because I couldn't find anything interesting to push it forward.
If anyone else would like more info (Im serious, I love talking about this stuff), one of the other characters in the fantasy story has a very smart and well-trained horse that they've grown up with. The breed of the horse is a brown American Sugarbush Harlequin Draft (lol long name) and I've...
update- roughly 16,000 words now. the couple is named Marcus and Rose, and Marcus's wingman is his coworker Ivan. fun fact, I put my chicken Blondie in my fantasy story to be Marcus's pet.
I'm thinking about publishing it if I do finish it and it gets enough traction, but it's actually a spin-off story of a character from my fantasy story paired up with a normal girl I made up. I would want to post the fantasy story before anything but whatever I can write might do lol
Ten days straight of writing a love story and it has surpassed 11,000 words! That's the most I've written for a piece, well, ever!
It's about a really shy guy falling in love with a girl and learning how to be confident as he becomes her close friend. He works at a bookstore and she's one of the...
For Blondie, I'm not completely sure but I imagine it was a rooster fight with Stormy (which had happened before and I intervened to stop the previous one) because Stormy was pretty beat up when we checked them that day and their feathers were all over the coop. This happened over two years ago...
After giving my chickens some water today I heard Digger, my red frizzle cochin bantam, crow for the first time since Stormy passed. He sounds...pitiful. he used to have the most elegant crow out of all three of the boys. Just a minute ago, the crows he forced out quite literally sounded like a...
we were able to get them some feed today. all seven seem to be doing just fine but had a bit of an impacted crop after eating. not entirely sure if starvation was what got to Stormy, i will update if anything else happens.
I first got chickens in 2021 as a 17th birthday present and i fell in love with them ever since.
I currently have eight chickens. here's their name, breed, and personalities
2 black australorp hens named Addison and Eliana. I haven't given time to tell the difference between the two of them as...
As of losing Stormy we have eight chickens, one stays inside because she's the only bantam hen we have which would often get sick and be bullied or trampled by the rest of the flock.
Stormy was a sweet boy and I had a really, really close bond with him, just like I do with the bantam hen (same...
we only have one other rooster and I usually saw them get along. we have trouble with providing them with regular feed at the moment due to our financial standing but we give them something to eat every day usually vegetables, rice and/or grass. I find it unusual that the other seven chickens...
Today I was going to feed my chickens when my birchen cochin bantam rooster (named "Stormy") was laying on his side nearly out of my view, next to the wall of the coop. I thought he was dead but when I went to pick him up with a trash bag he was still alive, just seemingly weak. He couldn't...