Recent content by BlackGirlByTheSea

Thank you for these ideas and the info. I would definitely prefer skipping more prep than I already have to do for dinner! The first time I did it, I used my blender and it ended up more like a puree. But the fact that leaving them whole is okay, gives me peace of mind. Thanks again!

Oooh! Good idea. Thank you!

Thank you!

I usually give our flock of four chickens produce scraps from our kitchen. I’m currently chopping collard greens to get a head start on Christmas dinner, and have been tediously trying to chop the stems into tiny pieces and I’m wondering if this is overkill. My question is, is there a certain...

Awesome! Thank you so much for this very informative response!

Hello. I trimmed sugar snap peas for dinner last night and after blanching in salted water, they were still really stringy and inedible (even though I spent 15 minutes removing stringy parts 🙄). Can I chop them up and give them to my chickens if they were cooked and shocked in salted water? I...

I’ll have to measure the actual clearance, but I think it’s 2 feet from the ground to the bottom floor of the coop. And the roost is 1-by. I think have a 2x3 (off the shelf and sanded, so it has rounded edges) that I can swap it out with. Thank you!

Thanks! I can work on these changes! And it’s 1/2” galvanized steel hardware cloth.

Thank you for all of this advice. I’ll put plastic up in the run in the next couple weeks. The roof has grooves across it and it’s not sealed on the edges. The coop is about 4 feet high sloping to 3 and a half feet or so. That first pic was taken before the chicken moved in. I’ve since leaned...

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Thanks! Great tips!

After realizing that getting a $500 coop from Wayfair might not be the best for my small flock, I spent that on lumber and built Ana White’s Small Modern Chicken Coop. I doubled the width so that my 4 chickens would have plenty of space and used hardware cloth that was extended into a skirt that...

Big thank you to @MysteryChicken for helping me ID my amberlink pullet (who was originally sold to me as an Austrolorpe pullet). Figured I should confirm the other three, now that they are looking more like hens than chicks! Can you guys help out a n00b? TIA! Just for reference, Tractor Supply...

Hello! I posted pics of my chicks a while ago. There was one, my white one, that got some mixed answers…even on gender. Now that she’s (he’s?) bigger, I wanted to check back in. It’s also starting to get a bit of brown on parts of its feathers. This new coloration just appeared within the last...