Posts by Blondie

I live in Sharpsburg, but am very familiar with PTC.  I highly doubt they will allow backyard chickens. Most, if not all, subdivisions probably have restrictions in their covenants regarding livestock. They won't want chickens...

I have guineas and they sound off when they see or hear a hawk, but it doesn't stop them.  I've lost 2 roosters in the past few weeks to hawks.  Even though the roosters were bigger than the hawks, it just goes to show how...

Here are my rainbow layers from McMurray.  They are outside with a heat lamp.  The weather is warm for this time of year and I'm sure they will stay warm   Here's a link to the...

Absolutely impossible she laid those eggs at once.

I have ordered from McMurray Hatchery 3 times and have been very happy every time.  Now, I may have lost a chick or two out of an order of 50 (51 with the bonus chick), but I am ordering from them again.  This time I am taking...

Waddling is a symptom of being egg bound.

Just don't let the goats eat the chicken feed.

Had a new coop built. This one has a cement floor because no matter what we did with the floor with the old coop, "critters" would still dig through and eat the food.  Here's a...

Hi - Sorry for your loss. I subscribed to this topic because I had a similar situation - 15 dead chickens spread all over.  All except 2 had absolutely no signs of any injury.  None. The 2 with inury had their heads...

Mean!