Recent content by Ann With A Plan

I weigh the giant ones. The biggest one so far was 3.5 oz and had a huge yoke.

Haha yup. The one of the left I put together myself with 2 litter boxes, some wood strips and screws. They loved it. Then my aging mother got my daughter the middle box for her cat, but she gave the box to me after she gave away the cat. It was expensive and my mother didn't want her giving it...

I don't remember which eggs she lays, but most of them give us some big ones. A Barred Rock laid the big white one she took. I get some the size of duck eggs, too. When they first started laying the giant eggs, most were double yolkers. But after that they've just been BIG. I also put the cam in...

That's my gray sex link.

Right! It's only bee one of the Wyandottes that has gone broody.

I know it's natural behavior, but it was so funny to watch! I had to share. I'm trying out a new set up that I was thinking of enclosing and hanging from the lower side there. I dismantled it from the back end of the coop because it was too high and the Wyandottes that got picked on kept...

This is the ONLY way I get rid of them. Over the years I tried all the other methods and none of them worked. I started working on them from one side and then kept moving them away from where I didn't want them to be. It took several applications, because their homes can run deep and wide.

I have a 10'x10' canopy in front of the coop, and the dust bath (kiddy pool) is in the middle of that. Doesn't get wet under that.

"...you put your right foot in, you put your right foot out and shake it all about. You do the hokiepokie and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about."

I refuse to let my chickens outside the fencing to free range. We have hawks that fly around here. Once in awhile the chickens will get out where there's a breach under the fencing, so I had to reinforce with more stakes. A few years ago when my daughter had half a dozen chickens, she put them...

So sorry! What about using an electric fence?

Hi Jessica. Sorry, I didn't see your post. We should meet sometime! Yes, Try Shooks Poultry. It's not far off I-40. https://www.shookpoultrync.com/

"Hand over the grub or I'll peck your eyes out!"

Thank you!