Posts by Glasshen

Just catching up from last night, and am distressed by the fate of the bees. Poor things. It seems an unfair match, a bear against a hive of bees. And a hard one to intervene against as a human protector. Well, now the insurance claim...

Got four large and one smaller garbage cans of mulch from OCRRA this morning and have been mulching the areas the girls have finished working on. They have done a very nice job, a few iris and daylily shoots have suffered, but not really...

People use goats to clear land, they eat all the scrubby stuff, and probably fertilize a bit too! Maybe I should get a herd of goats and a portable yurt then I could bring the goats all over my land and get it cleared, and I could camp...

Yikes, Cass, all those eggs! I'm sure you have made every effort to contact the teachers as their egg consultant. But having worked in an elementary school, they will do whatever they have figured is most expedient, and having eggs sit...

Glad you have a nice home for the chicks, Rancher. I am having my Bro. And SIL visit this weekend, and thought I should stick at 4 chicks in the basement...they are from the Boston area, and my brother loves to tease me by wearing John...

Rancher, I'd love some of your chicks, I could use about 4. Ginny, still thinking of Buckeyes, if you will have extra. My thoughts on having a flock is to add some each year so there are always young hens that will lay. But I may have...

Maybe last year someone on the southern NY thread had a lone chick who was not doing too well. Her solution was to wear the chick in her cleavage. She eventually crocheted a little holder to put the chick in and wear around her neck....

Tab, glad to hear your eggs are progressing! So glad the hatch wasn't lost. Will you check with your doctor? I know that you won't want to take meds on your own, but sometimes stubborn stuff, like sinus, needs an intervention and the...

I dont know what kind, but it was very tall standing over my barred rock hen. If she was scrunched to about six inches, it looked like it could have been 24. It was streaky on its breast, and it was cold grey/brown, not a warm brown like...

Lots of news. Had a hawk attack day before yesterday. Maybe the hawk was young, or maybe my shrieks put it off, but the hen it had down was ok and made its way to the coop when I got close enough to scare the bird off. Then it got a...