Posts by GrandmaChickie

Oh, and just as a side note--I've written about it on another thread, but my parents used a light bulb to heat/light their chicken coop when I was a kid. We awoke to a blazing fire and chicken fireballs running across our lawn. It was...

My husband hung up strings of clear Christmas lights and set them to come on at 6:30 in the morning, and go off at 8:30 at night. They worked wonderfully, they are very safe, as far as a fire hazard goes, and we hung them high enough...

My Dominiques are the friendliest chickens I have ever been around. I can't post pictures from my phone, or I'd post a picture of my husband sitting on his lawn chair, drinking a beer, and serving as a roost to six Dom hens and one Dom...

Wow--I'm not sure what that is. And is it just the camera, or is her eye very dull and cloudy, too? It almost looks fungal. I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions for you. 

Umm, I guess that's a "Youth-Model." Don't want people thinking they make guns for kids!

I have a Remington .243 and I love it. It puts deer down with no problem. I actually have a child's model, because I'm a petite woman, and it fits my 5'2" frame and T-Rex arms perfectly! LOL

I don't have much of a suggestion. I have a similar situation with some banty cochins I got. Most of my big hens ignore them, but when they are locked up in the coop, the poor little things just get driven from one end of the it...

I hear you on that! My chickens paying for their own feed was the only thing that was keeping DH from flipping his lid about the dust bath holes all over his well-tended lawn! LOL!

I think your idea about keeping them in the coop for a while is a good one--they might have felt that the coop wasn't safe for egg-laying, since it was "invaded." They could very well be laying somewhere else. And the heat is...

I would tell him that your property is private, and that you expect him to respect that. Honey, you keep saying you're not cruel, but what you're doing is setting yourself, your chickens, and anything else on your property up to be...