Posts by Megs501

anyone?  =)

ok, so I got my first two eggs this week! Yay!!!! They must be coming from one of my 3 barred rocks, as my rir girls aren't old enough yet. However, my mom is visiting and peeked in this morning and saw an egg. When I went out to...

Awesome!  Glad to hear it's going well.   My 8 are surviving and the little ones are now starting to hold their own =)  They were playing keep away with some cabbage from the 12wk olds..  Looks like everyone is...

How did they all do in the coop? I have been keeping out my 12 wk olds because I'm afraid of them hurting the babies in the coop at night. Did it go well for you?

Aaah- I just did the same thing! Haha only w 7wk olds and 12wk olds.. I think typically it's going to be some pecking, chasing, etc. I have one of the older girls (barred rocks) picking on my baby RIRs. My poor RIRs are so sweet, and...

I agree w jomoncon and other posters. Food! I hand raised my 6 RIR girls, and they didn't mind me too much, but could still get a bit frantic when I came to visit them. One day I gave them a treat of some wild weeds (although they...

Cute! Very funny

Den in Penn- thanks! I am going to add the extra water in there. They seem to be okay at times, but last I was out there all 3 older ones were cornering the youngins and running them off from feeders and the waterer. No injuries as of...

update: one of the 3 12 week olds is not letting the babies near the food and water.  It doesn't seem to be a constant thing, but apparently she does it enough that when I go out there, all the babies huddle to the feeder while...

Ok, thank you. The babies are keeping their distance from the 3 older ones. They stay at one end of the run, or in th coop. (before I couldn't get them in th coop! Haha). But when they do intermingle, there is some fussing going on. ...