Rural Gardening: New Rooster installed in his "palace", 1 by jylgaskin

jylgaskin wrote:
All the new hens and the rooster have settled into the chicken palace. There was a lot of squawking as the hens got to know the old ones, but everyone seems to have found their place. The rooster (Americaunna standard) thinks he's pretty hot stuff. Twelve ladies and a chandelier in his coop (not to mention the stained glass windows). We had three Americaunna roosters to choose from and ended choosing the most docile of the three. One of the others was prettier, but he came at us repeatedly while we were catching the hens and I rather prefer my ankles without holes. Now, if they would just give me some eggs! I only have 4 laying right now and I'm used to more eggs than that. This afternoos, I took out the peach peels and any bad fruit with some stale cake and I swear I heard one of the old hens telling the new ones, "See, I told you there were advantages to being "house " chickens! We get lots of treats!"