Recent content by Gardening Gal

I got a led light bulb with a built it timer off Amazon. It can stay on for 2, 4 or 6 hours before it turns off then comes on the same time every night. I have it to give them a couple hours of light in the winter so they keep m laying eggs longer. I have a light socket on the ceiling of my coop.

Wow! I have 4 cinnamon queens that have been laying about a month. Their eggs are still quite small! I had to use 6 eggs to equal 4 large in a muffin recipe. I'm wondering if they are ever going to get bigger. I get 3 or 4 eggs a day from my 4 girls.

I was so excited to find my first egg from my cinnamon queen pullets the day before yesterday. Today I got another mini egg, same nest box and think I know which was it is. It's gonna take 2 of these cute eggs to equal 1 but I don't care. Now for the others to start laying. Their combs have...

I had chickens year ago and never had a problem except an owl tried to pick a hen up. Of course then raccoons were hunted for their fur. Now we are overrun with the little buggers. They destroyed our sweet corn crop a few years ago. I appreciate your advice. Thanks so much!

Any advice on more protection is welcome. Electric fence maybe is all I can think of.

I had a raccoon kill 18 of my young 12 week old chicks. My hubby caught the momma because she couldn't get back in after we put chicken wire over the top of the run after that but then the next night she came back with her 3 kids and he watched them squeeze through a little 6" square opening...

Thank you! I couldn't find anything with the white tips on their wing feathers.

I thought I uploaded pics before but couldn't find them so I don't know if it worked. Sorry if I repeated

Can anyone tell me what breed this is? 6 weeks old. Thanks

I have identified most of my mix of breeds from Hoovers Hatchery except this one. Black with white tips on its wing feathers. Can anyone tell me? Thanks. I'm not very educated on different chicken breeds like leg color and comb types. I'm learning a lot on this site and so appreciate all the...

I think it's been too long. I tried numerous times. Sorry you had cull yours. I'm going to just let it go, see what happens. It Seems to be able to eat and drink and get around fairly well.

She came from TSC and they show no results for lavender ameracauna but they do for Lavender orpingtons so I'm still not sure.

I have a chicken with a slipped tendon. I think it's been this was for about 3 days. I had moved them all into the coop from the brooder and though he just sprained it but upon further inspection I see I need to put the tendon back but can't stretch his leg out. Is the tendon where my thumb is...

Thank you. How can you tell the difference between a lavender orpington and an Americana? I've been trying to figure out what she is for 6 weeks. Her name is Ducky since she looks like the ugly duckling. Lol