Recent content by Bearing1

Maybe that is the problem. Houston is just too big. for example I live in Plantersville it would be 1.5 hrs to your place. Finding someplace central to most locations is almost impossible. However you are welcome to come visit my 20 chicks and chickens. some 7 year olds and some 2 week old...

In Magnolia area would like to meet other chicken people in the area Have had mine for 7 years I'm need of some new chicks, pullets only about to buy from McMurray Hatchery would like to share an order. 25 is minimum I want around 12-15. They sell day old sexed chicks of many many breeds. Have...

I would be interested in a houston swap meet or just a meetup. I am in the Magnolia area

Just can't get anything started in the Houston area maybe it is just too big.

I have had up to 27 chickens and normally 0 smell, occasionally after big rain slight smell if i hadn't cleaned up the day before. I clean the run every day with a dog pooper scooper and keep the coop clean and well ventilated, every morning I clean out under the roosts A well designed coop...

Just trap the skunk and cover trap with a tarp. It won't spray while covered. Then either move it or take it out back and shoot it there.

I use Amdro but keep the chickens away for a day or 2 by putting a wire screen over the mounds and after the 2 days shovel out the Amdro remains that the ants return to the surface. I have had a couple of chickens eat a small amount after the ants extracted the chemical (just several grains)...

So you think chicken math is complicated, try egg math and see how much advanced math is involved in a simple egg. We are lucky that the chickens do the math and all we do is collect the eggs You probably won't understand the math but take a look and see how complex it really is. There is a lot...

I think may have asked before is anyone near Magnolia, Tx. I have a new setup with a fully engineered coop designed by my chickens to keep them happy and me with minimum work. Anyone who would like to see it is welcome. Took me a 3 weeks to build it. It is home for 17 Chickens of several...

I put 3 ceramic eggs in the nest a week ago today I found a 5' snake with 2 eggs in it's belly both ceramic. I killed it but believe it would have died soon on it's own with 2 undigestable eggs inside. It was still in the nest box as it couldn't fit through the opening that it entered. Quite a...

it seems it is a difficult thing to start in the Houston area can't seem to get much interest I have recently moved to Plantersville, TX 20 miles west of Conroe and 5 miles North of Magnolia on 5 acres my chickens have never been so happy.

Everyones favorite chicken is the one they will pick but Chickens are like most other creatures they all have their own personalities. That said my most gentle are my Polish "Buff" and "White crested Black" of all my chickens these are most like pets and follow me around the yard even and come...

Hello (BOSS) is black oil sunflower seeds and they eat it shell and all in fact they usually love it maybe your birds are a bit young to enjoy them