Posts by jeanniejayne

I started 13 eggs at 4 PM today -- BC Marans, Buff Orps and Black/Blue/Splash Orps -- my very first hatch in a Hovabator I got for a bargain price last year.  I am so excited!  So, on may 25, i will be a new Momma!   ...

How cool!  I am going to be starting my onw first hatch later this week -- Black Copper Marans, Buff and Balck Orps.  I am reading Bob Sheasley's delightful book "Home to Roost", on the history of chickens and his own...

I love the look of the pen built of steel or aluminum tubing (which is it?) -- very clean-looking, and the wheel mechanism is genius.  My hubby and I are just thnking at this point.  I have never raised meaties, but have a...

I am interested in Hollands.  I hear they are one of the most endangered breeds but have great " backyard chicken" qualities :good layers and foragers, good dual purpose breed, nice personalities, hardy, though white eggs...

I had to chuckle reading about the lady with 6 hens in one box.  I decided to try a communal nesting box after reading about it on one of the BYC threads.  We had made a 3-nest box out of a chest.  We took the dividers out...

I have this book, and enjoyed it very much.  The writer is an Englihsman and a journalist, and allows his chooks to roam his poor wife's garden because writing is solitary work and he loves their visits for treats and to lay eggs in...

What a lovely story!  I was just saying to my huband today that I wondered if an incubator-born Mom would know what to do with a baby.  Now I know!  Love the "picture" of the wee babe on the roost with all the...

I am the one who replied ealier who had the wound center.  Anywho, after trying sugardine, banana peel, aver bacon, and sharp debridement -- I never found a "core".  I had to finally admit that these were just...

Will Morrow is a gentleman and a farmer whose chickens are all pastured (truly free-ranging).  The chicks he sells are icubator-hatched.  His reputation is impeccable, and he has begun what will be a series of articles in...

FYI-- This is a listing on Craig's list Delaware.  Listed price is $35.  I asked and it does not have a turner.  The lady listing this replied she would post the model and perhaps a pic. Here is a...