Posts by SassyKat6181

I feel for you man......had a redtail eat one of my hens two days ago.  Can't put my net up with all the snow we've been getting off and on, and feel bad to keep the girls locked in for too many days in a row.  I know it's...

I think it's possible that the purple martins may have kept it away, but hard to tell since I keep the net up in summer.  Those purple martins sure can get aggressive though.  I was in the barn an afternoon last summer...

If its the fluffy feathers under the tail, I would check for lice.  Some of my girls started losing those feathers last winter when it wasn't as cold as it should have been.  I dusted them with Sevin, 3 times, spaced out 10...

We have an old post & beam barn (1846) and the barn swallows and purple martins show up each spring and leave each fall.  This is when we know the end and start of winter.  It's like one day they all show up and then one...

This buff is quite friendly.  She only puts up a fuss when I take "her" eggs.  I put 4 wooden ones under her tonight when I took the real eggs out.  Hopefully this will keep her sitting for another week until the...

I got 4 RIR packing peanuts with my ducks last year.  2 turned out to be pullets :)

I gave in and ordered the Meyer production 25 with free shipping :)  I have two other people going in on the order with me.  I have a Buff Brahma that's been broody for about two weeks now.  The shipment is for July...

The biggest male has really been fighting with another male lower in line.  Not to the point of blood, but he chases him a lot, especially at coop time (when it gets dark)  2 nights ago, they were running around the field and...

My son loves to collect the eggs.  When he was 3, one of our hens jumped up and pecked him on the lip, causing it to bleed.  I did not blame the hen......I blamed myself.  It could have easily been his...

I used to get the occasional broken egg.....nothing left but a small pile of white.  (they get oyster shell free choice)  Now I am getting an egg with a hole in the end and all of the inside is gone.  Last week there...