The males have been mounting most of the older hens, haven't seen them on the brahmas or merans, but definitely on the cream legbars and Easter eggers.
We don't have a separate dish of oyster shells, we've been giving them layer feed with extra calcium (at least what the bag says) and crushed baked egg shells. Everyone from our first group has nice red combs(3 cream legbar, 2 Easter egger) and the one roo has been mounting them.
Will be...
Our one roo crows every time there's a cat around...really annoying since our area is full of feral cats. There's 2 big toms that patrol our yard, the chickens are pretty used to seeing them.
Hello, it's been a busy fall/winter in South Carolina. We have about 20 hens and 2 roos, who we started acquiring in July. We have cream legbars, light brahmas, black marans, Easter eggers, and a couple other mixed that we hatched out of my in-laws flock(very mixed flock with Easter egger roo...