Posts by jeanniejayne

Sorry for the lateness of this post.  We used regular sugar and full-stregnth betadine.  Make a dryish paste and cover with a small peice of gauze or cotton batting to keep in it, and wrap gently without stretching with 1/2...

I have one poor pathetic 7 month-old who is molting.  I didn't think they were supposed to do that until their second year, since those feather were practically brand-new!  But she also went broody at 4 mos., so I figured she...

Can you get a pic of the bottom of the foot?

I had to smile at that last post.  I am a wound specialist and once managed one of those state of the art wound centers, and we used sugardine a couple times, at the behest of my favorite podiatrist, who loved it.  Problem is,...

I love my Welsumers, for DARK brown and brown speckled eggs, great foragers and thrifty, curious and fun.  Not quite as productive as most of the other breeds, but I get about 18 eggs a week from 4 hens (I think one of mine is not...

Anyone out there raising Whitmore Delawares?  Wil was breeding for size looking for a good foraging meat bird.  I have his Welsummers and love them. 

I have 5 of Whitmore's Welsumers and they started laying at 17 weeks, all but one, who I think has either not laid yet, or is very irregular.  The eggs range from medium to large, now almost always tending toward large at 6 mos....

Very, very cool philosophy.    My pullets started laying at 17 weeks, much to my surprise, not long after their combs and wattles grew out and got red.  So I agree!   we will expect an announcement when the big...

Mine laid the first egg in my hostas.  Second egg was in nest box, but occasionally have found them on the cement patio, on the coop floor, in the grass, hidden in a potted plant, and yes, on top of the nest box!  Go...

Oh, yes!  I agree!  YOUTERRIBLE PERSON!!!  Shame shame shame    I've never had one yet either, but if I do , I will save them all, too!  Now, to find the right wee bowl in which to put them.......