Posts by gavada

We have a pair of Royal Palm turkeys that are getting ready to lay eggs.  While we have a very lovely strawy nest area set up for her in a safe location, she seems to be building her own nest in some brambles by our creek. ...

We have 4 chickens and a semi-portable coop.  We're going to be moving soon to a place with much more land and more of an ability to free range our girls.  When we move should we keep the girls locked in their coop for a few...

Hi all,   We dove in to backyard flock a little over a year ago and absolutely love our chickens.  We decided we wanted to start raising some Standard Bronze turkeys this year.  Can any one recommend a good book for...

Thanks.  Makes sense.  Nothing feels warm like an inflammation or anything and there doesn't seem to be any major swelling.  She let's us move it around without making a sound or trying to get away.  I'll just keep an...

We had an issue yesterday with one of our chickens and one of our dogs.  Somehow one of the girls got out and my dog was the first to discover.  We heard the chicken squawk and ran outside right away and rescued her and...

We have 4 Ameraucana hens that are all about 4-5 months old. They recently started laying.  Earlier this week we noticed that one of our chickens, Billie, was developing a bald spot directly under her beak.  The rest of her...

We just got our first egg from one of our Ameraucanas.  It's light blue and oh so very exciting.  I know the size of the eggs will get bigger but does color become deeper the older they get or is it going to stay pretty much...

We got our first egg (light blue) with our first chickens! It's so exciting! I may take off work tomorrow.

Ok. We'll wait and see how it goes as they get more used to each other (they all came from the same brood we just picked them up at different times).  I was mostly just concerned about the lack of body heat for the one girl. ...

Hello. We just started the awesome experience of keeping chickens about a month ago. We started out with two hens and then decided to get 2 more this past weekend.  When we designed the coop we designed it to be big enough for 4...