Posts by LestersFlat

What little I remember reading about the issue said that they will get along just fine, but that ducks need/want water, and chickens don't do well if their bedding or coop gets wet. But wait till someone else answers before you decide...

Again, someone else having the same questions...save me from starting a new thread.   figliadelre: Looks like you got some helpful answers here. I am also in upstate NY (Otsego Cty) and these warmer temps have also inspired me...

LyonPride: I hope your chat with your neighbor is the solution, but I am sure the fence won't hurt.    I have a similar problem, but with my own dogs, a lab and a lab mix. We just moved to a rural property from the...

Quote: Originally Posted by aoxa  8 weeks is when I would suggest doing it. I've done it at six weeks with no negative issues what-so-ever. A couple of pecks here and there. If you introduce enough at one time, it...

Curious to know what others have done when introducing new chicks to an existing flock?   We currently have 9 hens and 1 roo, all just about 1YO. We recently acquired 5 chicks, supposedly all female. They are just starting to...

Very adorable chickies! I love the names AND especially the little grassy "meadow" behind their chickie portraits! They posed for you so nicely.

Great question!   The older ones are Girl-Girls and Roo. Roo is such a character that his name changes often. He has been Mr. Roo, Rudy Roo, and Rotten Roo.   My 4 SLWs are hard to tell apart, so they don't really...

Me too! She seems to be getting along with everyone just fine.   Has anyone else noticed that their hens stay in separate little groups? And that the groups sometimes change? Roo and the 4 SLWs were the only ones coming back...

My red girl seems to have worked her way back into the flock (and the coop) but she still comes back every morning to lay an egg in the chicken hospital.   Yesterday we had a snowstorm where about 6" of snow came down fast. I...

I added a roo when my hens were about 7 months old. He was only 6 months, and was horribly treated by the girls, but they didn't hurt him, just kept him at the bottom where they thought he belonged. As soon as he grew bigger than them,...