Recent content by chkva

This is what I do... I add split peas, seeds, oats, barley, and a few other things then I stir it all up. My chickens and chicks love it, they are very healthy too. I give their egg shells with oyster shell on the side for a calcium supplement. They also get scraps at dinner time, but that's...

Mine do the same thing! Instead of following me back down the stairs they'd rather fly at me once I get to the grass... I'm always ducking and dying laughing first thing in the morning. Some have crashed right into my head or flew too far and whacked the coop or dog park fence :gigone chicken...

Mine lay like this scattered across the yard. Neighbors probably think they're all dead most days

When it's raining every day, the chickens get extremely muddy feet (my chickens free range and have access to rocky areas, grass areas, and muddy areas). If I don't go in there and act like I'm cleaning them they won't lay in their boxes, I don't ask them questions because I can't speak chicken...

:lau sounds like my top hen... She hates change so I never change anything I use. When our kale supply ran low, I never heard the end of it!

Straw because it is made to be bedding. Hay is food and not made for bedding. I use straw in my coop and nesting boxes, the girls always like taking strands and fixing their nesting boxes every morning. I change my coop weekly and sometimes every other week (depends on my birds and how much time...

Anywhere from 8-12 weeks. I have 3-7 week old chicks and all still are still peeping.

Freeze water in 16 oz bottles for a day then cut the plastic away from the ice. We have a similar waterer and thats what we will be doing. We also use them in our dog bowls when they're outside.

Here is Ophelia (Barred Rock) and Penelope (Delaware). I got both from a local farm and they're the top chicks in their flock. Penelope has been caring for 2 BJG since day 1, she is 3 weeks older and she let's them sleep under her wings! She actually just protected them from a rat snake that...

Knowing how a hawk comes in after prey, I doubt many roosters have the capability to take one out but I have seen claims of it by owners of this specific breed. Just hard to know if the rooster you choose will actually do it because each rooster has it's own personality and agenda. I got big...

TSC is a place that I will no longer buy chickens from... They are great until they get their bins mixed up and accidently put the wrong breeds together! I've read so many stories about people who have bought from them and thought they were getting one thing but end up with something completely...

Picasso looks like a cockerel and not sure where you got him, but breeders do make mistakes and so don't hatcheries or feed stores. I'm just saying from my experience and that's with sex link chickens includes. I believe ugh several pullet sex links and somehow 2 were roosters even though they...

We were just talking about a LONG snake skin we found over a year ago and saying we haven't seen a snake to our relatives that live in New England. They said they wouldn't move here because of snakes... While I was away, my husband caught a rat snake eating our 6 week old Cochin that we just...

My husband said the same thing... I caught him talking to them and petting all 10 of them when he was out building the coop. He even told me the other day that the black Cochin I bought is becoming his favorite! He laughs every time it runs to him because it looks like it has bell bottoms on

We successfully integrated our whole flock! We have a wide range of ages in our flock. There's 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 5 months, and 6 months for age ranges... We've had our chicks outside since day 1 with the See but Not Touch Method, they were in a 600 SQ FT run with a coop of their own for...