Recent content by Chicken Boo

My DH was talked into Green Meadows Equal Balance Forage instead of wood chips when he went to the feed store. Has anyone tried this stuff for litter? Supposedly, there is no dust. We just cleaned our hen house for the winter yesterday and need to decide if we are going to add more of the new...

FYI for those with sheep http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm350957.htm?source=govdelivery

We are currently not getting as much done as we should due to the Dr. Who marathon.

I am wrong, or the circumstances have changed. She is regurgitating the water now.

My leghorn (2 years old) Cumulus is not eating but is drinking. Her poo is just water and going through her rather quickly. DETAILS: 1) She started skipping laying a couple days/week about 2 months ago. I chalked it up to her never having molted and the heat. 2) Last week I noticed...

I showed this to my DH. He said, "Well that's ducked up."

Count me in. I wonder how many chickens you can get into the Tardis?

I found this. Does anyone have anything to add? http://wiki.omlet.co.uk/index.php?title=Introducing_day-old_chicks

How long does a hen need to be broody before she will accept chicks slipped under her at night? As of today, Dr. Girlfriend has been stubbornly sitting on a nest ~15 - 17 days. The other girls were pushing her out of her preferred nest so I moved her to a large dog crate in the hen house and...

This is me and my last brood. We all just fell asleep in our tracks.

I just tried this on my 10-year-old australorp, Roseanne Rosanna Dana. I noticed she was hanging back more than usual. I picked her up and she had a huge pasty butt under all those feathers. I brought her in and cleaned her up and put her in the chickie hospital (medium dog crate). She was...

Maybe the presence of the eggs from the older girls are signalling where she should lay. Just like putting golf balls in the nest box.

CrippedTurkey - I remember an old game show back in the 1970s, that did not last long, where the celebrity guests would describe what an object was (1 telling the truth, 2 lying). The contestant would have to guess who was not fibbing. It has stuck in my head for years that the object Andy...

I let a friend keep her hive(s) [there was 2 but one did not make the winter] in my yard.

Quote: Glad to hear everything went smoothly with the rabies series. Yep, very expensive. But since there is no cure for rabies, still a better thing to do. I agree, vet care would be preferable price-wise. As for getting cooperation from your husband ( ) let me know how you manage that...