Posts by keliejc

FREE CHICKS in SE Michigan.  A teacher I work with has eggs hatching this week: one dozen each of Leghorns, Isa Browns, and Araucana (easter eggers) that she needs to find homes for.  Please email me  ...

A teacher I work with has eggs hatching this week and homes are needed for the chicks.  There are twelve eggs each of Leghorns, Isa Browns, and Araucanas (probably easter eggers, can't guarantee pure).  My school is in...

My hen's crossbeak is pretty extreme, a little more crossed than that picture.  I've had to trim excess growth from her beak once in a while.  Just use pet toenail clippers.

I have a crossbeaked easter egger hen.  "Sandy" is four years old now and still perky.  Both feeders and waterers have deep troughs that allow her to scoop up her food.  You can also try making her some gruel - cooked...

Chicken stock?!  Never heard of it.  Details, please.  I'm in the same boat about the "crowing hens".  I'm advising my coworker to order eggs that are from an egg-laying breed.

Hello all!I'm in Waterford, which is in SE Mich.  I have seven hens and have another nine on order from Meyer Hatchery.  My yard is completely snow covered still and my poor girls haven't been out of their pen in so long.I am a...

My Welsummer is two and a half years old and a hatchery bird.  She is the bossiest one in the flock and pretty independent - doesn't mind foraging away from the rest.  She scolds and nags, but is fairly friendly.  She is...

I've twice had hens lose part of a nail.  Each time I found blood drops on perches, nests, and the floor.  I had to closely inspect each hen to figure out what had happened - none of them were acting strangely or limping. ...

I am glad you are giving the chick a chance.  I also have an EE hen with a severely crossed beak.  Sandy is a tenacious survivor, over a year old now, and even lays a small egg once in a while.  Every morning I am in the...

I have a Welsummer hen who is very quiet, and my two BOs are fairly quiet as well.  So is my silver laced Wyandotte, but she is the low hen on the pecking order.  I have two EEs, one is pretty loud and a busybody, the other...