Posts by HouseMouseHens

10x13 is not anywhere near big enough for fifteen ducks and ten hens if you are not planning on letting them out. Or are you just talking about keeping them cooped in the coop while they are babies? If you are going to build a run or...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mybabychicks  Your fine shell lay again unless she is really old but I would kill her if she doesn't in the next 2 weeks:lol: She is the same age as all my other hens, just a few months...

My Red Lace Blue Wyandotte had been broody for about a month and a few weeks before we finally broke her using a broody cage. We had her in there for about 28 hours and let her out, and she hasn't gone near the nest since. This was...

Hi everyone! I have a question about my eggs. They are very hard shelled, and are totally fine in all other aspects, but when I hard boil them, it seems that most of them gets these splitting cracks (like lightning looking) all over a...

Quote: Originally Posted by PrincessBillieB  Thanks so much! I would love it if he happened to be an appleyard!!! I have had him for a little over a week and he seems to be doing well. Growing like a little weed....

Quote: Originally Posted by Going Quackers  No, and neither is my chicken coop. I probably have natural forms of insulation based upon the materials used but otherwise, no. Again, i get cold, i'm in Canada. I...

I was I the same boat two months ago, my girls, who were all about 8 months at the time hadn't started laying yet. Is it cold where you are(I forgot to look at your location)? They might be waiting for spring. Once it started warming...

Our Blue Laced Red Wyandotte has been broody in the nest for weeks now, and we were grappling with the same problem. To let her hatch chicks, to graft day old chicks under her, or to break her broody. We let our chickens free range in...

So we recently started letting our chickens free range. They have been in a coop and roofed run their entire lives, and aside from one chicken they have always laid eggs in the nest boxes. Never in the run. The one that sometimes laid...

Our chicken coop is the CluckleBerry Cottage, but I havn't finished building my duck house yet, so it doesn't have a name. My husband suggested the Quack House, which reminds me of Crack House. Haha! Needless to say, I said no to that....