Posts by JesseK

I have a flower garden that is full of garlic (about a 7x4 foot space). I need to clean the bed out and thought I would put the chicken pen around it so they could do the work for me :)  I have 4 birds, and the pen is larger than...

Yay babies!!!  Pictures please :)

Wow, this is fantastic!!!!  We had to go to our city board when some off leash dogs killed all of our hens. I was amazed at how supportive they were. Doesn't it feel good to have them on your side?! Congrats!!

 

Which one did you find laying? I've found it can take months after serious trauma for a hen to start laying again...so I wouldn't give up if it wasn't Velma who you caught. She probably needs some time to get healthy :)

I had a dog attack and the dog pulled out all of one of my girl's tail feathers. She had hid in a spot that her tail was the only thing the dog could reach. 

Did they eat the paint off of your garage? Mine do that to my barn - drives me nuts!

I can't remember what the thread was called, but there were some really neat pictures on here a few weeks ago of a chicken yard with raised beds. The poster had made some kind of wood framed screens that went on top of the beds. That...

She seems much better! Just a few specks of blood on the egg. Nothing anywhere else. Thanks for asking! Hopefully it was just a tough egg

What is the surrounding building like? Is it secure?