Posts by saltnprepper

I am just posting a video on this exact topic I will try to link it. I am in the Pacific North West, about 40 minutes south of Seattle. We get a lot of rain. I bought my coop and did not get a coat of paint on it before it started...

I needed an isolation coop yesterday for a wet chicken to finish drying off and so I could observe her and I really didn't just want to put her in a dog kennel. She was acting fine so I didn't want to put her in chicken jail I just...

So I am curious, you have had all sorts of advice. What are you going to do? I personal would put the chickens up and do some car repairs and accidentally leave out some coolant. Or I would catch the dog and remove all tags and drive...

Here are some pics to see the faces. The EE and the Wyandotte are both laying. I found the Wyandotte's egg as a surprise in the yard the same day the EE started laying. Then yesterday for sure I knew it was the Wyandotte because the...

Yes Americauna, she is my smallest girl and the lowest on the pecking order, but all the other hens sang and clucked for her when she was laying. It was like they were cheering her on. It was amazing. 

I got my first egg today! It's blue  

25 weeks, she is the first to lay. I have a barred rock, wyondotte and australorp all the same age. She is the lowest in the pecking order. All her sister hens sung praise for her! It was so cool.

She did it!! She laid an egg!     The blue egg is our first, the brown is a store bought egg. I wanted blue eggs from my EE so bad. I am so very excited!  There she sits proudly on the microwave with the coffee...

OMG I love Darla!