Posts by SuburbanSue

I use a 40 watt bulb for light but only when the days started to get shorter, as supplemental  lighting to keep them laying, then I weaned off that in February and let them go natural...with the light of the days. Heat...I used...

when I enter her in a poultry show? The vent area is really poopy and I was gonna trim the feathers back there. We are entering a show on May 19. Do they judge "that" or are they just looking at the standards? I could bathe them but...

I usually go back to anything Green Day...if it's them, I'm in!

5 out of 6 hens today. Yesterday was only 2.  

so how are you keeping them seperated? like, in the coop, do you keep them in a caged area? I have a friend who needs a home for a 2 month old chicken and my 6 girls are nine months. My thing right now is time-- currently the coop door...

Got a friend who has a 2mo old chick from school and needs a home. I have 6 nine month old girls. I worry about them killing it and also about the cold with a little one. We like in NJ, outside NYC, and its winter. any thoughts,...

Got a friend who has a 2mo old chick from school and needs a home. I have 6 nine month old girls. I worry about them killing it and also about the cold with a little one. We like in NJ, outside NYC, and its winter. any thoughts,...

just curious as to thoughts about this. This is my first year with the girls and I have added a 60 watt bulb to give them the eggstra light they need to keep laying, but now I'm wondering, should I give them the break? Will they molt? Do...

my one Buff Orpington has an extremely fluufy butt area and gets dirty. Just gave her a butt bath today and used the blow dryer to dry her before she went back outside. I think she enjoyed it. Kids had fun too!

they have a page on Facebook -- Egg Skelter. Looks cool.