Posts by Afterburner

Outdoorsii, I just love Lil Whitey.  She is so regal and friendly.  I's love to have one just like her in my chicken coop.  What colour eggs does she lay?  Does she have a wyandotte's strawberry comb?  ...

I have five.  My suburban yard wouldn't support very many more.  I am surprised to see how many folks have nine to fifteen.  Do that many chickens require an acre or more for free ranging?  

I did a lot of work on my friend's business computer.  He wanted to pay me, but I don't like taking money from friends.  So he offered to replace my poor first attempt at building a chicken coop.  I gave him a picture of...

Kev:   We stayed at the Days Inn in the southern part of  Kihei.  The pictures above were from that hotel's parking lot and common area.  I also saw several black feather roosters of the same size as the one...

I just came from a wonderful vacation in Maui.  Strangely, there are feral chickens running around the island.  Some of them are in very unlikely places.  I found them in trees next to our hotel room along the beach, in...

I have chickens because of all of the listed reasons in the poll and because they are just so cool.  What other pet can do as many different things for so many different kind of people,  Basically, chickens are the perfect...

When allowed into the garden, my birds have eaten the leaves off every plant they come across.  Even inedible plants like tomatoes have been stripped clean of leaves.  Rooting vegetables have been ripped up and eaten as well....

I saw this style of bedding in my local Wilco...

Thanks for the reply, me EE is a hatchery bird.  The inner membrane appears to be white.  It is hard to tell.  She does have a pea comb, about the same size as my last EE who was a green egg layer.  just like yours,...

My EE, which has both a beard and ear muffs, finally started laying  a few weeks.  What threw me off into disbelief that she was laying is that her eggs have a light brown, almost white egg shell colour.  I was under the...