Posts by seminolewind

Quote: Originally Posted by Nambroth  A small update to the Trousers Saga....   The lady I got Trousers from has since had two different birds from her flock (one was one of Trousers' brothers) tested...

What do I do?

I have a flock of 12 Polish.  All doing fine together for about a year now in a very large pen.  Now I have one who is being picked on by another hen, and to top it off, yesterday, several more as a group all pecking her...

Quote: Originally Posted by K Epp  I have only lost one of my 4 polish chicks.  I lived about 6 weeks, but wasn't thriving. The others grew at different rates, but this one RCR was half the size of the smallest...

Now I'm down to just a few nibbles here and there.  I bought another bait station.  Those things are really working for me.

Yea, I put lots of oyster shell in their feed and the egg eating has really slowed down.

Those are cool feeders!

Quote: Originally Posted by Framac  Quote: Originally Posted by 4-hmother  I'm thinking that the Blue chick is a cockerel I second that X2

My oldest chickens are my Polish (5 1/2) and still laying.  I have all my Polish separate from the big girls, and they like being with their own.  My best Polish hatchers are my Silkies.  And on occasion a few of my...

Me thinks Haunted is right.