Our hen Princess got caught between our neighbor's rooster Sam & our rooster Bo. Sam hit it & quit it & then Bo did right after to reassert his dominance. Her comb started bleeding so I brought her inside to let it clot then we're going to spray the area with Wound-Kote Blue Lotion & put her in...
Here are a bunch of pics of the 8 younger chickens along with Luke our older RI Red roo. I think we have at least three younger roos, 2 Reds & 1 Leghorn. At least. We shall see! Thanks for everyone's help with how to deal with this sitch. I love BYC!
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We have Rhode Island Reds & Leghorns in this coop with our Red Roo Luke. Our other Red Roo, Bo, has Barred Rocks & Ameracaunas.
Here are better pictures of the young chickens, I think we have a red roo, a leghorn roo & a TBD.
It turns out at least one of the eight young pullets we bought are roos. I think there are two or even three.
We can't keep them. I've contacted a dozen farms & sanctuaries in the NE area. I've received a few replies but they've all been negative.
Does anyone need a rooster? We might have...
Our first coop is small. We have the same concern about fire. The heat lamps in both coops are proper heat lamps. Both mounted as out of the way a possible. With the cords secured and as best we can. They don't show any interest in the cords or lamp. The bulbs emit a red light. This doesn't seem...
We use a heat lamp and heated water fount. We turn on the lamp when it drops to the 20's or lower. We turn on the heated fount when the temp drops to freezing. With the current temperatures at night, even with the heat lamp on, water will still freeze in the coops. But the coops aren't as cold...
We have two roosters, Bo & Luke, each now has his own coop. This is Luke's. My husband built it himself.
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We got him eight hens. They are 5 months old.
Our 6 hens are laying almost daily. We have a heated water thingy & a heat lamp for when it's super cold. So far so good. They all tend to stay in the coop when the weather is icky.
Hi all. We're in Attleboro with our 6 adult hens & 2 younger Rhode Island Red roos. Watching others in our neighborhood & interacting with their chickens made us want some of our own. We've had them about a month & all is well. The hens started laying again this weekend (we got them with our...