Posts by Ceilismom

When I bought some chicks at TSC a few weeks ago, every waterer in the place had yellow water in it.  The guy who was boxing up the chicks for me told me I needed to take home a packet of tetracycline (Tylan, I think) to put in...

It wouldn't be wrong, but it might be premature.  Even my most stand-offish chickens will come running when anybody has a treat bucket in hand, but it didn't start out that way.  Someone here (I never can remember) mentioned...

"Child, your hair smells like chicken (#@&"   because   "Get the chicken off your head!"   "Where's the chicken bucket?"

http://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6413643/lf-cochins/   These are the LF blue cochins (except the one in the juniper tree is a bantam) I got from Cackle in 2011.  I don't have any breeder cochins to compare them to,...

"working on being broody":  Some of my hens will hang out in the nest box for an hour or two after laying their egg, growling and snapping at anything that comes near them.  Then, they'll just leave the nest box and go about...

The hen who is sleeping in the nesting box may be working on going broody.  If the nest box is higher than the roost bar, some chickens will choose to sleep there rather than on the roost, too.   I suspect that the...

My Pet Chicken has a small minimum order.  Whether you could get what you need by Friday, I don't know, but it's worth a call.  

This is just my preference, because we get a lot of wind here.  My coop is a lean-to style building, and the tall side faces south.  That's where most of the vents (which are never closed) are, because the wind comes from the...

I can't say what caused this, but maybe this troubleshooting page can help you figure it out? http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res24-00.html  

It seems like your nest box is ideal for keeping the eggs clean, so I'm wondering if the problem lies elsewhere.  Is there a lot of mud where they spend most of their time?  What do you use for bedding in the coop?  Do...