Posts by reallynewatthis

Any thoughts on using Cedar chips as groundcover in a yard?  We have a 50x50 foot yard (some trees and shrubs), but it is turning into sloppy mud (we live in Seattle...).  I was thinking of putting down a yard or two of cedar...

We are usually getting 6 eggs a day out of 12 hens.  One hen is molting (she looks awful, but the feather are growing in quickly); one more looks like she is starting to molt; and two of our hens are 2 1/2 years old so they don't...

Sorry, I should have mentioned that the injury happened a month ago, so she is well out of quarantine and has healed well.  I double-checked the paperwork from the vet, since she had told my husband ten weeks...the paperwork says...

One of our chickens tangled with one of our dogs, and ended up on antibiotics for 10 days.  She was on trimethoprim-sulfa.  Our vet said that we need to wait 8 weeks before consuming any of her eggs.  Since we have 3...

Oh, well, no green eggs out of this one.  We figured with the crowing, but he hasn't done it often, and he hasn't been acting very rooster-like.  (We ended up with three roosters last year, all of whom had separated from the...

This is Eddie (Eddie Scissorbeak).  Eddie is supposed to be a pullet, but has crowed a few times.  I wanted to check and see if he is definitely a roo.  He is 16 weeks old.   He is quite friendly so far....

Or a cuckoo marans...also (I am by no means an expert on this, so hopefully somebody else will chime in), its comb looks quite large, so maybe a roo.   Katy

Last night, my husband found one of our 8 week old chicks all bloody and lying still in the enclosed run.  He thought she was dead...she perked up enough to be taken to the vet.  Unfortunately, her injuries were so bad (most...

4/18/12, 8:05 pm.    Fun!   Katy

I think older eggs work better for hard-boiling, it is easier to get the shell off.  We've discovered that with our nice fresh eggs from our chickens, it is very difficult to get the shell off if we hard-boil them.  When they...