I love that we aren't depending on our chickens to "feed" us, just to provide therapy. It enables us to choose whatever we want based on whatever we like and not based on whatever we need. Eggs are a bonus!!
They definitely are! He spends all day with them. I come home from work and it's like getting a rundown of what each child did today! And Russell the roo - He absolutely loves us, want's us to hold him, be near him....so cool!
We keep our chickens in a chicken run because of predators. However, we always let the Silver-Laced Wyandottes out to free range supervised in the yard. The Wyandottes were our first so they about a year older than the rest of our chickens. All of our others are about 6 months old. We did let a...
We have 3 silver laced Wyandottes, 2 Ameraucanas, 2 Japanese Cubalayas, 2 Jersey Giants, 2 Polish Crested, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Silkies, 3 Silver Laced Sebright Bantams, a Polish Crested rooster and Russell, our first roo is a jersey giant (I believe)...
We have a 2 bantams with 17 full sized chickens and 2 roosters...we don't seem to have any problems with them intermingling. We have yet to witness the roosters trying to mount them, but then again our roosters are kind of wimpy! The bantam eggs are the most adorable tiny little eggs in the...
Update on my guinea, Lefty: Lefty is now gimping along with some pressure on the injured foot. He is now able to get the claws in a forward facing manner instead of dragging them behind the leg. Thanks for DR, I did not take him out as quickly as I thought I should and he is doing wonderfully...