Posts by ZenHens

I think you'd have to be careful with them up in Canada. They're Mediterranean birds and seem to relish the heat. Mine don't seem particularly tolerant of the cold. It could be because we're in Florida, but definitely do research about...

I have six pullets, all roughly the same age. Two Barred Rocks, two Delawares, and two White-Faced Black Spanish.   The BR and Delawares have been together awhile, with some tradeouts because I received three roosters of my...

Can you make some investments into the property? You can kill and trap foxes all day long, but if you don't have a controlled population they'll just be back, won't they? It sounds like the chickens need a safe run, the dogs could use...

^---yeah, that.   I think (if I'm understanding you right) that adding 400 chicks to a hen house would be incredibly stressful to the hens and dangerous for the chicks. You'll certainly lose some.

We have a large black crow who lives in our yard. I'd stand out and watch it warily whenever we'd let the girls out of the run and into the fenced yard. Then I started really observing it. I was nervous, because all six of our...

  Agh, freaked out. I left the porch door cracked last night when I was setting up feed for the morning outside. I came back and was about to go into the house when I saw a long tail skittering across the porch windowsill. (The...

Thanks again. I'm going to order a sample issue of the Poultry Press and really peruse the ads. I'm sure there are probably more breeders in Florida--they may just not have a big internet presence.   We had a beautiful...

Like others have said, please don't blame yourself. There is no malice in wanting to have a nice lawn. You didn't let them range on it on purpose. You didn't forsee this happening. It's a sad lesson, sure, but nothing you should feel...

Thank you, Sonoran. That's exactly it. This is Cloverbuds, not an older group. It's perfectly acceptable for me to assist a five year-old with his chicken. One of the reasons we got chickens is to foster a sense of responsibility...

I can only reiterate what others are saying. I have two eight week-old Delaware pullets (my sweet, sweet girls) and they are both white with light speckling of black on one and even less on the other. I've had them since they were...