Recent content by eggface

Hello! Sorry to butt in, but I'm looking for about 20+ fertile eggs for my daughters kindergarten class @ an elementary school in Berkeley. The teacher has done this successfully in years past but the farmer who supplied her has retired from chicken rearing. They don't care what kind of...

This guy is very pretty, pure bred, bought locally as a chick and raised up with my flock. No signs of disease in him or any of my birds. I was planning to keep him to breed, but I've got too many chickens for my urban backyard as it is and already have to move my bantam rooster into my...

I have two 11 week old blue wheaten ameraucana roosters that need a new home. They are pure bred I bought straight run as week old chicks from a guy who breeds them here in Oakland. I already have a 1 year old bantam silver japanese rooster and my 5year old vegetarian daughter won't let me...

Thanks for the advice... guess I'll just have to retrain them for a few weeks:) Its worth it to not have nasty-ass egg shells:)

Hello, I have tried moving my main roost up higher than the nest boxes. I have one short roost that is still lower, but they seem to use that one as a step up to the boxes and most of them stay on it or the higher roost. I'm still getting a chicken or two who want to crap all over the nest...

We got 10 chicks from Alamo Feed & Grain last march and the 6 that the neighbors pit-bull didn't eat are doing great. We got RIR's (dead), Turkens (dead), Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks, Buff Orpingtons and a bantam japanese (I think) rooster. I'd call them up before you go, but we had a good...

I've heard hops are bad for the chickens but why? Will it kill them to eat hops? I'd love to grow some up over my enclosed chicken run, but I guess its a bad idea. I'd be wary of planting the ivy or anything that grows "anywhere and everywhere" if you don't like it, you can't get rid of it...

Why's an English chicken called Hamburg thought that was in Germany;)

I threw a big tray of it in their run once it cooled a bit and they gobbled it up. Don't know what I'll do with all 20 lbs of it though, guess I need more chickens.

Greetings, Any home brewers out there who have experience feeding their chickens the spent grains after brewing? I'm generating about 20+ lbs of malt and barley grains today and want to feed it to my small flock of 6 birds. You think I need to let it dry out a little? or just throw it in...

Hello, One of my chickens has had a droopy comb (doesn't appear pale though) for several weeks now and does not appear to be laying eggs like my other 4 hens. I noticed today that she's definitely having diarrhea too. They're all about 7 months old. She eats and drinks and mingles w/ the...

Greetings, This is my first flock. Can you tell me what breed my bantam rooster is? Here's some pics, he's about 4-5 months old. His black tail and wing feathers have an iridescent green sheen in the sun. Thanks very much!