Posts by Jazzchick

When they were babies.... they are teen agers now...    

Do you bathe your silkies?  Brush them... guess what I am asking is how do you groom a silkie to be shown and how do you know they are show quality.   I bought some eggs from a show breeder and I have a couple really...

he is a boy so I figure natural instincts to be with girls will kick in eventually, .... won't it?   Do roosters ever hate being with hens once they get old enough to be fertile males?

by the way, thanks for answering, was sick so I was not on last week.  I figured tough love would be my next project with him.. although I dread it as it is so cute how much he wants to be with the humans all the time.

trying to be tough, put him out every morning with them now he chases after me to my car and tries to follow me into it when I leave, races into the house whenever we try to walk outside at all,  At night all of my chickens go...

That is really nice, we just added new chicken nests to our coop for the winter from large round food grade plastic tubs filled them with shavings shelfed them so neatly two rows started at about a foot off the ground.  The...

To give you a layout of his life thus far or ours.  Me and my kid hatched a bunch of rare ebay eggs from prime breeders bought a few chicks of rare breeds as well.  We have chickens of various ages the oldest separated from...

I live in a rural area so we have more feed stores than we have places to buy food for humans..  thanks   I am sure there is something going on, I just have to do every preventive I can think of..  I just got home...

I live in a rural area so we have more feed stores than we have places to buy food for humans..  thanks

She does not have big congregations of insects on her though like I saw in some internet pix,  she is practically completely bald so her skin is easy to look at.   unless the flaky skin has insects that are white that I...