Posts by MarieNC

She is three.  Doubt she is going broody but I guess you never know.  She has been laying eggs just fine since she was 7 months old.

My alpha hen Dora has been periodically sitting in the nest box, but when I go to check later there are no eggs in the box.  It doesn't appear that she is eating them at all.  Otherwise she acts normally and is eating and...

I noticed she was acting funny yesterday and took her off to our wonderful avian vet.  They x-rayed her and found an egg in her 3x normal size.  Today she had a C-section and came through the surgery with flying colors....

My black sex linked hen Delia (she will be 3 in April) was diagnosed today with egg yolk peritonitis, poor thing.  She stopped eating yesterday and I noticed she was sitting off by herself.  Last year she had an impacted egg...

I went into the run to spend some time with my girls a couple of days ago and had my 2.5 year old RIR in my lap and noticed she was shivering.  It wasn't horribly cold that day, around 50.  She is definitely the low girl on...

I tried putting a light on a timer for my girls last winter.  I had the lights come on about two hours before sunrise.  Well, I went out one afternoon and it was about two hours before dusk and all the girls had gone to bed....

Occasionally I get mice in our duck run and I use a small Hav-A-Heart Trap to catch them and release them down the road.  I live out in the woods so I'm not dumping them on anyone else.  We still can't figure out where the...

My Rouen duck Ella is about 1.5 years old and had been laying good, solid eggs every day since about October of last year.  In the last 2-3 months she gone from laying good eggs, to laying a few soft eggs a week, to laying...

I live in the woods of NC and there are many predators here, not to mention my neighbors' dogs who come to visit.  My chickens and ducks are confined to their coop/run (it's very large) when I'm not home.  There is a large...

Congrats!  We just had a happy integration of two 6 month old Barred Rock babies in with our 6 two-year old hens.  They were kept in separate runs separated by wire during the day, and separate coops with separate ramps and...