Posts by kateseidel

Got chicks from a local breeder; the two Rhode Island reds both have crooked toes - curled sideways not under.  The chicks are 4 weeks old - is it too late to try and boot the babies to correct the toes?  They seem to be...

I don't think $700 is much for that size coop - make your run bigger if you can.  Your hens, and you, will be glad you did.  My hens free-range so they rarely use the run, and I went with a small one (9x12).  If I could...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j166/KateAndJoe/Rushing%20Rd/Chickens/P7200010.jpg   I think she's a hen...she's supposed to be a hen.   But her comb and wattles are so much larger than the other two from her...

ticmama - just posted a similar thread.  I have one  Wyandotte (the lowest on the grown-up pecking order) who I think would actually kill one of the 9 week old chicks if she could get to it unattended!!  I had hoped to...

I thought I'd done everything right.  Raised my new chicks indoors for 6 weeks.  Moved them out to the coop to an area that was separate from the big hens (2 years old), but only through fencing, so they could see, hear,...

Your hens will find their way back - they don't usually range too far (although mine have gone 1/4 mile away more or less).  We lost 5 to a fox, until I started letting the dogs run the property.  Now we have no foxes, and...

Glad to hear there are others who like a broody - my buff orpingtons are serious, serious brooders.  but they are quite agreeable,never peck, just growl.  I have one now insisting on brooding outside of the hen house, so...

Great post - debating the acquisition of a pair of goslings, and this insight into behavior was great.  I have horses, dogs, cats, sheep and chickens.  One of the horses checks every day to see if I will let him be the herd...

I have chickens.  In fact, I have six more chicks arriving April 9.  Today a friend dropped by to ask if I wanted two Toulouse geese when they hatched (sometime in the next two weeks).  OMG OMG OMG.  Yes, of...

I hate it when that happens - and it just happened here too.  I was surprised at how much they had slacked off for the winter, and just found a nest in my tractor barn, with two dozen eggs.  I scrambled them and fed them to...