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Quick question, I have the ability to get spent grains from a local distillery, so I was curious if those were just as good to use as a feed supplement as the spent grains from a brewery for chickens and eventually pigs

My guard goose is embden, The rooster is a barred rock. He has started to attack our legs as well

He is almost 7 months old

Looking for advice, so I had posted a couple weeks ago about how nice and friendly my rooster was, well this past week or so he has been very temperamental. So temperamental yesterday that sometime during the afternoon he had attacked our guard goose and bloodied her poor eye and beak. I got...

Wow!! Really. I would have su spected the opposite. I may reconsider. Thanks for the info

I'm jus

Wow!! Thanks so much. Sounds great to me I wasn't even suppose to get a rooster, they were to be all hens. I've been working on holding him and loving on him daily as well so he won't try to be mean to me or my kiddos

I'm a first time chicken momma so it seemed good but I just wanted to make sure that it was " normal"

Now when he got off of her he remained in the coop for awhile while she finished laying

It was a barred Rock rooster and a Rhode island red hen. He has been successful at mounting her too. The only one I've seen him mount

He left then she was in it for about another 5-10 minutes and laid an egg

So I just posted this question. I haven't found out yet. I've read where the rooster could be in the nesting box by himself to show the hens that it's a place to lay eggs and it's safe but I haven't seen anywhere what it means if he is literally on top of the hen both being in the nesting box

Ok so I have a hen that just started to lay eggs 2 days ago. She has only laid 1 egg so far (it was a double yolker) but my rooster is laying on top of her in the nesting box. Is this normal?

I have 4 Embden geese I would like to move through a small woodsy patch I have that contain a large amount of sassafras saplings. Does anyone know if geese will eat this?

Well the only thing with that is these guys are still "babies" they are only about 2 months old