Posts by Squishy

cute! The feather footed one looks like a white cochin.

I'm curious as to how it developed then?  If the little bird came and laid it in the nest, it would not have had time to develop.  Are these birds able to carry their eggs with their feet or something??? But I thought...

From what I have read (no expert here!) if you want to keep a Cornish and not process, you have to put it on a diet and keep it moving. So they recommend for those birds to feed at intervals (like 4 meals a day or more) and in...

Halfway through thats what I was going to say too!   But is the egg the same color as your regular chicken eggs.. maybe if it was so small, you might not have seen it in the nest and someone could have been sitting on it?...

I forgot to ask...  What IS the actual price of an electric system? Say with the house blocking one side... thats about 36 feet to cover just the chicken coop and run area from the outside, without running wire through our...

Thanks for the advice Trefoil :D   I forgot to say that they would be locked in the coop at night and only be allowed to browse in our yard with supervision, and that when our younger kitty is inside... she is a...

Hi all!  We are about to get to work on our coop and I wanted to double check the security of our plan. I know you all are pretty good at this stuff so if you wouldn't mind letting us know what you think? We can't turn...

Oh I forgot to tell you about our home-made bator.. It's a 20 gallon long fish tank... with a small 2 gallon fish tank inside it at one end.  The whole thing is insulated with lots of styrofoam.  the top is all styrofoam,...

Hi All!  I posted in the Feb hatch thread then forgot to keep updated. We have a split hatch going here, not my first choice, but we built our incubator and our redundancy method seems to be so stable I think we will...

Oh boy! How rediculous is that! I would be giving that teacher a peice of my mind if it were mychild....they are only 7 for crying out loud...what is wrong with the teacher would be my question.