Recent content by CelticGoose

I love this!! Thank you so much for posting!

Thanks for all the hints!!! I will be sure to put them to use in future hatches. Cheers!

Great posts and congrats on your hatch(s)! I do have a quick question, when you deciphered the gender on the chicks on day one through, wing and feet size, what exactly were you looking for? Thanks so much.

6 days feels like a good time to give up. Smart guineas after all!

Good luck with your fowl. That is such a rotten deal and I totally could see that happening on my farm.

Where are you in WA?

i am excited to see what happens too! Keep us posted!!!

i think that maybe exactly what happened. my hen Dixie was laying one every day and doing awesome and then just STOPPED! and the more i looked the more i found evidence. finally one day i came home and her beak was covered in yoke. now Dixie lives somewhere they don't care about eggs, just bug...

I have about a 3 month old roo that I know has no idea he is a rooster yet. My question is, when will he start crowing??

I thought about that too. We're on 2 acres so they could lay alot of places, so I'll have to look through the brush. But today I found a partially eaten egg and the nest was all sticky. The roo likes to hang out in the little coop where the nesting boxes are. And he is usually scared of the...

Alright. I had a weasel in the coop about a month ago and he killed my little cochin rooster. So, to be ready should it ever happen again I got a young, but large Orpington rooster so he could kick some weasel butt if it came back. Since the roo has joined my 5 girls, I have had NO eggs. Maybe 1...

so i have spent most of the day thinking on this, i am out of town this weekend so i have to take care of this today. i am going to move the ducks into the coop for the weekend with extra water. and i will be putting chicken wire on the bottom of the door and keeping it held there with cinder...

Thank you so much!! What a great idea! We are moving and I have alot more space at the new farm were going to, and that would help with the chickens and the ducks. Thanks for the suggestion JackE!

no foot prints. and no digging.

So something broke into my duck house and my chicken coop yesterday. i lost 4 hens, 1 duck, and 1 rooster. everything it killed was under 4 months. i want to know what it was. somehow it squeezed through the gap under the door which is 1"-2" tops. it killed 1 duck and battered the other 2 ducks...