Posts by vickiw

morning  DrH~actually we are in a FREEZE WARNING!  Jim and company are in the frost watch, geeesh.    Too wet and too windy to get too much done today outside. Hopefully the wind will dry things out enough to...

Evening all, Well everything either covered or dug up and put onto the greenhouse. If we lose cloud cover tonight and the wind dies down (all that is supposed to happen), we will frost and matter we are definitely freezing tomorrow...

NO! Layers should not get oyster shell until they start laying. I feed nothing but Nutrena to my girls. My hens are on layer and my 8 wks old are on Nutrena starter/grower. It has everything they need till they join production. Read...

Morning everyone Thanks Dr H for the kind words and yep, should have known better think you're right about Noodle. Gave her a good once over yesterday a.m. and nothing I could feel or see so I gave her a baby aspirin, let her out...

Morning all! Can't sit up for long so this will be short, sort of. Worked dawn to dusk for 2 days on the coop remodel and it turned out nice-pics to follow later - pushed too hard and ignored the warning pains so went to get out of bed...

X2. my favorite bribe is mealworms. Never a problem at roundup

Oh Zeke, that is my nightmare!!!! Fortunately, I guess, we had seen ermine near the house before in winter and our neighbors had lost a couple hens to weasels just before we built our coop so I was especially paranoid not having even...

Up early and it was SNOWING!!! . Going back to bed. See you all in the spring.

There's also a small swap in Antigo tomorrow but I don't know anything about it other than where it's at. Franchie???

Quote:Originally Posted by judge X 7!!!! Ugh- the smell and dust. Ick!!!! Yep on the smell!!! Dust not so bad with only three babies but they just hit 4 wks and their poop now stinks!!!. Can't wait for their new digs in the coop to...