Hi all! I have a flock of 11 hens. 3 barred rock, 3 jersey giants, and 5 gold laced Wyandottes. We have decided we’d like to add a rooster. We have found one that is a cross between a Australorp and a true blue whiting and he is about 5-6 months old. Our girls turned a year in February. Our main...
I have a little Gold Lace Wyandotte who is 21-22 weeks old and she has just started laying eggs. She won’t use the nesting boxes but has built herself a nest in between our boxes and has pulled the straw out of the boxes and taking shavings from the coop floor and puts them on her back. I first...
We are new to raising chicks. We got 12 babies who are 9-10 weeks old now. Most are fully feathered. We have a couple who look patchy around their chests with the downy. We live in Northern Michigan and want to move them to the coop (we have no older birds to integrate ). Our coop is secure but...