Posts by BeautifulPacificNorthwest

Thank you easttxchick! I appreciate your insight. You're right, it's contagious and I need to isolate them. It won't be easy this time of year, we're having snow storms.

I'm beginning to think maybe I'm raising a bunch of pirates. Argh!It started this Saturday. I found one of my roosters with his right eye held shut. No wheezing, no foam, just a small amount of gunk gluing the eye shut (like we get in...

I lifted the door on my nesting boxes and one of my RIR's peeked out at me. I watched her reach in into the nesting box and gobble down a short piece of straw. She then picked up a small pine wood shaving piece and gobbled it down...then...

Here's pictures of the system we use:

Anyone up for a visual challege? I know some of you will be...(Boy Howdy it's hard to take a picture of an egg yolk without getting flash burns on your eyes )Assessment needed: Is this a fertile egg? These images are of the same egg, and...

You never forget your first Congrats!

Thanks Gallorojo. I appreciate your assessment  I don't know too much about them. Age? Under a year for sure.I have no idea how much they weigh, they are small though.I don't what breeding they are. In fact, I'm not really sure what...

Here's pictures of my Cubalaya's What do you think?Oh, and, I found another egg today!Here's one rooster:Here's the other. Don't know how I'll tell them apart once his tail feather grow out This hen is so sweet it was hard to take the...

You're welcome It's pretty simple, but I really love it. For me, it's a huge time and labor saver.

Here ya go Chicken_s.It rained last night so the water level is a little high. DH is going to put a spigot part way up on the side so I can use it for washing