Posts by strid8

I just found this thread! We're in Gloucester and have 2 chickens & 3 ducks. We HAD 6 chickens, but lost 2 to predators and 2 because they were roosters (the boys now have a happy existence as lap-chickens in Lawrence). We're thinking...

We did this without planning to with our Topsy Turvey planters.  The cherry tomato plants grew down almost to the ground and the girls just jump up and get the tomatoes.  Our girls are free range pretty much whenever we can...

I have three ducks; 2 Pekin (a female and a male) and 1 Fawn and White Runner.  They started mating (constantly, I mean CONSTANTLY) about a month to 6 weeks ago and we just got our first eggs last week.  We're averaging about...

I really hope that cheese is ok (or at least not bad) for them.  My girls LOVE cheddar cheese.  Especially, my lap-chicken, Dilys!  

I am brooding ducklings and chicks together now.  The brooder floor is made from two wire shelves overlapped to fit over a commercial sized cookie sheet (24" x 18").  I put 1/4" galvanized screen (I call it wire cloth, but my...

We've been having coyote problems here on the suburban North Shore of Massachusetts, so would be really afraid of letting the girls stay out all night.  But, I may not have a choice (I have a feeling that the ducks might be a bit...

I just got 6 chicks and 4 ducks day before yesterday.  I am brooding them together and everything is going along fine.  The chicks love to clean up the ducklings sloppy beaks (I imagine them saying, "Oh, you have a little...

Hello All!   I'm the proud (and new) mom of 6 chicks and 4 ducklings.  I'm brooding them together, and will house them together (after my husband finishes the coop).  Looking forward to raising my girls.  I have...