Posts by pattycake

My chicken wreak havoc in my rock garden, where there isn't even anything to eat! It's not the eating that worries me, it's the digging. My chickens dig huge holes whenever they find some nice soft soil, uprooting all the nearby plants....

Last Saturday we noticed my Speckled Sussex hen, Donut Lover, had some greenish diarrhea and was roosting during the day, a little bit fluffed up. I was worried but on my way out of town, and my neighbor checked on her and said she...

How old are they? My chickens have become increasingly less picky with age. I have some six week old chicks who won't even eat strawberries! But my big old girls will give anything a try.

Quote:Originally Posted by chicks for better health Does anybody know about NY?You don't need a license in NY if you sell them by the side of the road. In fact, all the egg law I could find refers to reselling eggs to a retailer. If...

I have a rooster, and he causes me a lot of stress, actually -- I'm afraid one of these days some Jehovah's Witnesses will come to the door and he'll be all over them! The mailmen know to honk their horns to scare the chickens away, and...

So maybe she was egg bound? If that was a soft shell egg, she might have had trouble passing it. Hope she feels better today.

I've always been under the impression that you have to compost it first. Now, if you can use it when it dries out, but before composting,  that would make life a lot easier for me...I've never heard of getting e coli from chickens...

I hate pine shavings. I find them to be messy and hard to compost. I only use straw and have had no problems with mites or whatever. The spilled straw rakes up easily and can be used as mulch.I only use pines shavings with my chicks, and...

We bought an old farmhouse on  a road with a 45 limit, which because of the narrowness should be a bit lower, imho. The traffic is bad at commuting time, and we lost two cats to the road. BUT... our patio is on the other side of the...

Nest making was my first hint -- my first egg arrived within a week of my finding the nest box straw all rearranged. But I got my first egg in the corner of the hen house, from a RIR I think. At least there was a RIR feather stuck in the...