Posts by GrandmaChickie

@ Lolita117 - One of my Dom hens has a straight comb, too--maybe a genetic throwback to their roots...? But she isn't as stocky as a Barred Rock. I love, love, LOVE my Doms! I have yet to find a chicken breed I like better!

Just wanted to let you know that I ordered 5 Dominique pullets and a rooster from Cackle Hatchery, and one of my hens ended up with a straight comb. I look at her pattern, and it's Dominque, and her build isn't as stocky as Barred...

We have a roost in the run for ours, and we have to swing it up and tie it, or our hens wont go in the coop--they want to be on the outside roost! My husband was even picking them up off the outside roost, petting them, and then...

Hmmm, maybe that name is a jinx....

I had that problem with my rooster, Domino. He actually loved me a little too much...would do the courtship dance around and around me. But after he attacked my M-I-L 3 times (okay, I kind of snickered), we thought, what if he does...

My chickens go into their house every night at dusk, too. The only problem with those automatic doors? Dusk is a different time every night...where I live, we're talking a difference of 4 hours between dead of winter and height of...

So sorry. I've been around chickens most of my life, but they continue to mystify me. I guess that's part of the appeal, though.

I actually am getting rid of a hen tonight because of a personality problem. She's not mean to us, but to younger or smaller chickens. I'm not talking about the normal establishing the pecking order stuff--she jumps on them and rakes...

I think you may be right--fox are great at the snatch and run. One got my beautiful Australorp hen in the middle of the day just a few weeks ago! Needless to say, vigilance has become the byword at our house.

Well, I'm not trying to sound sarcastic, but I'd put a dog-proof latch on the doors first off. You didn't say you forgot to close the coop, so the doors must have been too easy to open. Or did the dog tear open the coop at the...