Posts by Stands With A Fiddle

Marty, I have heard that hawks hate shiny things.  Someone was telling me that people sometimes hang blank cd's from the tree to scare them.  Also you could do some mylar or foil on the roof of your coop.  Just a...

Hey Marty, you beat me to it!  My best friend read that article at the cafe this morning, and I just got around to reading it myself. I figured that there had to be another explanation.  You know, the IFA layer feed is never...

Yeah, she's a big girl.  She also snores so loudly that I can hear her at night when I have my window open.  I wonder how long she'll live with her size, because I seriously think she must have some chicken acromegaly or...

P.S.  Mongo's egg cracked as well, but the membrane was still intact and the ants didn't get to it so I will fry it tomorrow morning.  I did get the pine shavings in when Mongo was done with the facilities, so hopefully no more...

Quote:Originally Posted by hen-thusiast I can't believe you have a chicken named Mongo - that's my boss's nickname.  What's the story behind your hen's name?The story is that I bought a bunch of day-old chicks at the IFA and...

The privacy curtains seem to be working out.  The first day I hung them, I had one chicken immediately use the facility.  I've been getting 2-3 eggs inside the coop since then.  And Mongo appears to be working on an egg...

Well, I hung up privacy curtains on their nest boxes.  I made them out of squares of brown and green felt that I bought at Joanne's (4 for $1).  Almost immediately after I hung it up, a Wellsummer decided to set up shop in one...

Well, sadly some predator got at the eggs that Big Red was trying to hatch.  So last night I threw her back over the fence and she willingly went to roost with the rest of the girls.  We'll see if she returns to her nest, but I...

Hi, my friend is looking for Americana and Wellsummer pullets.  If anyone would like to get rid of some or knows of any, send me an email please.Thanks!

Quote:Originally Posted by PacsMan Quote:Originally Posted by Stands With A Fiddle What style of curtains did you make?It wasn't exactly curtains... I cut slits in them about 3" apart, about 3/4 from bottom to top. Nothing...