Posts by elmo

Someone in our neighborhood moved away last month and left one or more of their chickens behind loose. There is only one chicken left, and she's roaming around our urban neighborhood, showing up in backyards in a several block...

Thanks for your sympathy. I know there aren't many people in the world who could relate to our sadness over the death of a little chicken, but that there would be people on this forum who could. 

We lost our first chicken today. My daughter accidentally slammed the coop door on poor little Ginger. We rushed her to the vet, but within 15 minutes she was gone. She must have been bleeding internally.   We feel awful. I...

We have five lineolated parakeets in a large, walk in aviary. Linnies will often perch together close enough to touch. So all five were perching together, shoulder to shoulder.   Scooby, the adult male, was trying to interest...

Personally, I would not recommend a green cheek conure (or any of the conures) to someone as a first bird. Conures are very loud (earsplittingly so). And green cheeks, even hand fed ones, go through a nippy teenage period that would be...

Personally, I'll take chicken poop over dog poop any day. We have a small, elderly dog, and because of his age he's not going very far out the back door before he does his business these days. It seems I'm stepping in it or nearly...

Quote: Originally Posted by WAchick  Yes, I want to put the roost away from the door. Although I am a little concern about putting the roost too high and close to the top venting area. There's 1'5" of space from the...

I'm not sure I understand. She went broody on December 14? That's well over a month ago.  If it was me, I would not have allowed her to set more eggs until she had recovered from her initial broodiness, and gone back to...

I use plastic boot trays without sand on them. Every morning, I just take the trays out to the composter, dump/scrape out the contents, hose them off, then replace. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes. 

How about Belgian d'Uccles? They are sweet and silly and goofy. Ours always make us laugh.    Old English game bantams are another possibility, but ours do tend to be more aggressive than the d'Uccles with respect to...