Posts by suzeqf

I tried but it will only post 1/2 of it and its' the wrong 1/2 i'll try again when i get home.   She looks just like my hamburg roo did at that age but with a little crest it's just odd. 

I've got a mystery on my hands.  I picked up a silver spangled hamburg pullet at Buchiets that was prob about a week or so old and after a few days I noticed she was starting to  gets a small crest which i just...

My girls did the same things around that age and when I started putting them in their run everyday they loved and my hubby build be a wired wall in the coop so they could have some place to go and at 6 weeks old they were in the coop...

I have 4 silkies 2 are a year old and grew up with reg size chickens and have done great I had to seperate them for a while due to both of them getting injured one got under the car and the other stepped on something and hurt her...

I have buff's and new hampshire red and they looked at look alike as chicks but as they got older the new hampshire red started turning more strawberry blonde and the buff's a pretty golden blonde and at 10 weeks old my new...

I live in western ky and we had some pretty cold days with nasty windchills and my girls did fine.  i just add an extra layer of shavings to the coop in the winter time and everyone snuggles close when it's cold and it's...

I'm gone all day too and my chicks have each other to bond with but know my voice and associate me with food and treats my older girls know i'm a safe zone when the boys get a bit rowdy.   

I've got 2 roost poles that are about 5 ft tall and almost 6 ft tall and my nest boxes are at 2 different hieghts,  I have 2 that the bottom of the boxes are about waist high(i'm 5'4) and I have a narrow table under them so that's...

What I would do is work from the inside out,  I would put osd on the inside to cut down the drafts that way you still have the rustic look outside and it needs a like cosmetic work on the outside but nothing major.  I...

I started out with 6,  4 red star pullets and 2 straight run  banty's,  I said I only want 10,  so I added 2 cochins and found 2 silkies and a teeny tiny banty at TSC   so that's 11 and then I went to the coop...