Posts by K8tieCat

Is that San Diego County?  They probably only enforce the rules if there is a complaint.  Animal Control is typically the ones to investigate.  In my city, if you get caught doing something illegal, you have to stand...

I did the same thing with Trader Joe eggs.  The chicks are now three weeks old.  I can't tell what gender they are either, but am hoping for girls.  This much I know, they are White Leghorns.  So far in observing...

I prefer using a broody because she will integrate the chicks into an existing flock.  Right now I have two moms taking care of 8 chicks.  Between the two, the other girls better not even dare to look sideways at the...

I have four brand new chicks that look exactly like these and they are Golden Sexlink babes.  Guess you might have to wait and see how they grow.

FREE HORSES!!! 52 thoroughbred horses need homes. Will go to Sugarcreek this Sat. for slaughter. Gentleman died. His son wants nothing to do with them. Most broodmares are broke and some are in foal. Weanlings, yearlings, 2 yrs and 3 yrs...

The Feds just came out to my place today to place a trap for an ornery beaver.  When I told him I saw it once after I put my chicks away and smacked it over the head with my rake and it just kept eating my tree and stared at me...

Sounds like they are cramped for space.  They really should have a place to sleep, a place to nest, a place to run, and a place to bathe.

My momma hen just hatched 4 Trader Joe chicks, but not before I bought four Golden Sex Links to put under her fearing the eggs would not hatch on day 24.  I moved her into a nest on the floor of the coop with all the other girls and...

It has been my experience that momma hen will keep a watchful eye on her chicks until she decides to sleep on the roost again.  She will show them how to get up on the roost and then motherhood pretty much ends.  The babes will...

On July first, since I don't have a rooster, I put one dozen Trader Joe eggs under my two broody hens just to make them happy.  If they hatch, great.  Anything to get them off the nest.  Two eggs got stepped on which left...