Posts by allisojo

I've got 1" round dowels, 3" (flat) boards and 4" (flat) boards available for them to roost, and they all choose the flat boards over the dowels when they go to sleep.  They don't seem to care whether they're on the...

I was worried about something similar with my young ladies.  I handled them regularly when they were young (4 -12 weeks old), but several of them would still freak out when I entered the run or the hen house.  Well, they're...

That's most excellent.  You should be proud!

Man, those BOs are cute!  (They're all cute, actually.)  Makes me want to start hatching them!  Good job.

What's ACO?

I know you said you don't like the buff orp look, but they're great birds.  I have BOs and RIRs and with the exception of one puny RIR that is still scared of me, they're all very sweet.  My sweetest girl, however, is an Easter...

Several weeks ago I integrated - perhaps wrongly - some eight-week-olds with some sixteen-week-olds.  The older ones aren't as old as yours, but they were considerably bigger than the young'uns.  I supervised at first, but then...

Here's Bob.  He's a young cockerel that we just gave away to a nice family in Cuba, NM.  He was my son's favorite chicken, but he was just LOUD - too loud for the city.  I think he's pretty.  If you paint/draw him,...

I agree.  Anything is better than nothing, and storm windows likely have the same R-value as shutters.  If you were going to do shutters, which I suppose block all of the light out, you could just do a big piece of styrofoam or...

I'm sure chickens are very different from hogs (we couldn't count the ways), but we used to sew up prolapses in hogs (after we pushed them back in) with a needle and thread, washed thoroughly in iodine solution before and...