Posts by OnceAroundTheBlock

Petru, I know it's late and stores are probably closed right now but in the morning this is what you need to do.  Go to the store and buy a box of instant high protein baby cereal, get the kind that says "rice" on the box if you...

Jutinus, I am so happy that the little guy hung in there and kept fighting until he was able to get out of the shell!  I've seen what an exhausted chick looks like when it's having a hard time trying to hatch...so...

Quote: Originally Posted by Feanor  Update: I think she's going to make it! It has been a painfully long recovery, over a week of agony, but she's starting to put a bit more weight on her wonky leg each day. Now she...

TravisE, he sure is a pretty rooster!   Greenckick,  isn't that so cute when they first start to crow?  In a few more days, he'll have it all figured out and won't shut up because he'll be so proud of himself and has...

It's a chilly 70 degrees, and a rainy day here in the mountains of NC.  I'm sitting here on my front porch swing with my laptop and watching those 3 silly birds standing in the pouring rain. They have 1/2 their run covered with a...

2/2...which were fried up and made into homemade Egg McMuffins for my growing 13 yr. old grandson who spent the night last night.

Speckledhen is right about some roosters inheriting nastiness from a parent rooster.  Living proof......(picture taken Thursday afternoon right after I was flogged, rooster gone by suppertime!)       OMgosh,...

Moon Pies....oh I forgot, those are entirely different things........

Betsy57, I know how you feel to be taking care of an animal so faithfully only to have them act like flogging is the way to pay you back.  I too tried everything to change his behavior but when he showed me yesterday he was...

Although it's only been a little over 24 hrs. since I re-homed that bugger rooster back with my daughter and swapped out with a different one, I can see a big difference in the coop/run already!  It's almost Zen-like. ...