Posts by PEI chicken

Congratulations!  I'm so happy for you!   Love your chickens, and now you'll be able to visit them in their coop.  It is much larger than they are used to.  Your ducks look great too.

I have a young hen -- she just started laying eggs in November -- that wants to sit on eggs, on the only nest in the coop shared with 4 other hens.  This just started in the last week, but when I removed 4 eggs from under...

Hi Tslips\\\\Nice birds.  Are you just starting out with keeping poultry?I keep silver-pencilled PRs (just 3 hens with breeding roosters), and I also have 2 easter eggers that lay green eggs. I didn't intend to get easter eggers,...

Hi Avonlea and riverpilotYou are very welcome to the link.  I was happy to find it too.Avonlea, with a name like yours, you are probably an Anne of Green Gables fan?My 9 chickens would really appreciate a Woods style house today, if...

http://www.archive.org/details/openairpoultryho00woodYou may want to download the pdf version of the out of print book on the Wood's style open air poultry house.  See link above.  At this site you may either open the book and...

[img][/img]Great close-up pic! You can really see her eye focusing on the bug.

Hi DFCottage.  Your birds are wonderful!  I love the colour and the pencilling!

Hi CherylLove your sppr!My one remaining hen (from my original sppr flock of four) has holes punched in her toes.  I don't know what this means. Should I learn to punch her offspring with a hole pattern?  Should this pattern be...

Hi\\\\Sorry I don't agree.   The pinker one looks just like the colour of egg that my silver-pencilled plymouth rock lays, and the browner brown egg looks like it comes from another brown layer.  There is never that much...

Hi\\\\Sorry, but I don't see any pictures.