Posts by coocooforcocoapuffs

I have a Ameracauna hen that is about 11 months old that is coughing and losing feathers around her neck.  I can't find any illness that has both sx, so I'm wondering if there are two things going on - some molting and a respiratory...

I'm in Seattle and the stores around here don't have that rule, but my friend in Tacoma has encountered it.  Seattle ordinances only allow 3 chickens per lot, though, so maybe that's why they don't around here (I don't know of any...

Awesome.  I put the feeder and the waterer up on blocks and now I have very little spilled food and fewer shavings in the water (we have that problem, too, but I just thought it was inevitable).  Wooot! 

Well, rotzilla, it would appear you have gifted chickies!    Good advice, silkie - I will give that a try!

My first chicks are about two weeks old, and I'm feeding them chick starter in one of those things with the plastic jar that drains into a round dealie with holes for their wee heads (am I making sense?  lol).  Well, in the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Pakalana We're in Okanogan.My parents live in Omak!  We get there a few times a year. And, yes, the rule in the Seattle city limits is 3 hens, no roosters.  That said, I've heard roosters crowing...

This thread rocks.  We live in Seattle, where you can recycle just about everything curbside.  So, we do a lot of recycling, but it's easy so we can't take a lot of credit for it.  We compost like crazy.  Big yard...

Quote:Originally Posted by ccchicken My Ameraucanas are Nefertiti and Cleo because when they were chicks they looked like they were wearing eyeliner.Hey, I have an Ameraucana named Cleo!    For the same reason, of course -...

Oh, and you can just call me coocoo. 

Quote:Originally Posted by cookinmom I don't know the chemical composition of washing soda, but Arm & Hammer makes it and they sell it in the laundry detergent aisle of the grocery store.  It smells really...