Posts by JNorth

Well I gave her a warm bath, which she loved, and within minutes of drying her off and getting her settled she pushed out a good amount of clear gunk. I cannot feel an egg though. She's sleeping now but did a little preening...more...

One of our hens is not acting right today. Rather than foraging with her sisters she's just standing. She's staying close to the coop and when you watch her back end it looks like she's trying to push something out. This is the first...

Never mind...found it. Apparently it is toxic.

Does anyone know if this is toxic to chickens? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelidonium

To say my little guy has a close bond with the chickens is an understatement.... they just let him do whatever he wants. They don't even fight it!

  I just had to share! 

My husband just told me he thinks he may have steeped on it's foot when they rushed his feet at feeding time yesterday.

It's about 6 weeks old. We are hoping to process all of them during the first week of May. It's isolated right now and is just laying on it's side, feet outstretched. On one foot there is a toe that's twitching. It doesn't really...

One of our Cornish Rocks has either broken a leg or injured a leg, either way it's not bearing any weight on it's leg (but otherwise alert and looks healthy).  It's been separated from the rest and has it's own food/water right...

We found a good deal on 7ft high deer netting, so we're gonna give that a try. :-)