Posts by mommto3kiddos

I have only had chickens in the past, but my father is wanting to get a batch of quail & wanting me to go in with him and take half. I have wanted quail, but am totally clueless. I have an old chicken coop/pen (8'x8' run &...

Reminds me of my Dark Cornish when she was a chick!

I vote GIRL too! She is beautiful!

ok thats it - I went and got 5 bags of sand and will be converting over tomorrow. Will post pics when Im done.   Worse comes to worse I will switch back! Thanks everyone! :)

The problem with the shavings isn't the cleanup - its the whole fact they want to scratch them out into the run and its a PITA everyday sifting the run. Due to the way the layout is of our coop there is no real way to "block" them from...

I agree with the poster above that stated if you get alot of rain, watch out. I tried it in our run last winter. It turned out to be a very wet winter and it was a disaster!! The chickens loved it on the days I would put fresh out, but...

As of right now my run is sand and my coop floor bedding is shavings. I HATE the shavings! I tried switching to straw/hay last winter & its was worse!   I have read about doing just all sand, coop/run. I like this idea,...

After almost 2 weeks of no eggs from 8 hens, I added 3 small golf balls into the nest Saturday. Today I got this....         YAY somebody got the hint! I could tell by dry blood, and overall look of the...

Better pics would be awesome, but looking at these and at feathering & comb size I vote all girls!

Handsome fella you got there!!! :)