Posts by Chicky-dees

So who is guilty of actually catching their chickens and trying to look at the color of their earlobes?  I'm about to go out and give it a try.  Was curious to see what a chicken earlobe looks like.LOL!

Howdy all!  Was wanting to get some opinions on rooster breeds.  I am looking to take my little hobby flock to a new level next year and produce more chickens to actually eat, instead of keeping pet hens around for eggs...

Keep us posted and let us know if you catch them in the act!  So what comes first - the chicken or the egg?  Or the DUCk and the egg?  LOL!

I agree with Miss Lydia - lime used around the area, under the pen or in any place that they play(water fowl are great at digging holes in the puddles and causing the topsoil to wash out over time due to filling/dumping playpools, etc)...

Wow - what a fun mystery!  I was thinking along the same lines as the others, that you might have an Ameracuna bred into the bunch somewhere in a past generation.  Or the duck!  But my Mallard eggs have always been a bit...

For recovery from something like an illness (or bad behavior re-training in my case with my naughty bird) just a little cage of maybe a 4x4 foot square with room for a perch, nest box and food/water pans.  She could live in...

You mentioned your chickens started laying around 4 months, and that now they are about 8 months? Here are some things to ponder - You could just try leaving her alone for a couple of more months and letting her mature a bit more. ...

I don't like coons anymore - used to love ALL critters, but when they pulled the feet off my geese THROUGH their pen and left me with the job of having to destroy goslings that sat there and cried and couldn't walk, my relationship with...

UGH!  HAte it when these things happen and hate the decisions that have to be made.  Never had a blind horse in my 22+ yrs of horse ownership, but have had to make those terrible decisions time and again.  I had a...

Same here with stall cleaning - very theraputic (not so aromatic) but maybe it's the physical work and endorphine release that makes muckers happy?  Who knows.  My favorite place to actually SIT and think would be the goat...