Recent content by Marcy

Yeah, the picture of # 3 is not the best, but further down on the Cackle hatchery list are 3 white egg layers that could also be possibilities, including Brown Leghorn, White Leghorn, and something like "california white". So you could very well be right I'd actually be happy about that...

I am SO excited! I've never ordered hciks in the mail before and was a little anxious, especially since I only ordered 10. But Cackle Hatcheries did a phenomenal job packing them and they arrived exactly on schedule. Nobody's hurt or splay-legged and they are all drinking and eating from the...

I'm not sure how to get the pics to show up here, but here's a link to an album of them: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=rsiebenmann&target=ALBUM&id=5455557246378646577&authkey=Gv1sRgCJXFnrT92a3V8wE&feat=email They just arrived today and are a variety of 10 "heavy pullets" from...

I'm glad to see this thread. I noticed today that my 3 and a half year old Dominique hen Tina has some crazy-long spurs. They look sharp too. None of the others has any at all, and while I believe Tina has stopped laying, she used to be an extremely good layer, and is definitely at the top of...

I ordered mine from Cackle Hatchery, who will sell a "city special" of 10 chicks. If you ask nicely, they'll even give you an assortment rather than their official-policy 5 chicks of each type ordered. Of course, as soon as I had ordered, my husband informed me that the feed store has tons of...

Thank you guys for answering my questions I've had chickens since 2006, but it was only way at the beginning that I ever had chicks before, and there were no worries then about rats or integrating or anything.

She does spend her nights in the outdoor nestbox... I've even tried moving her after all the other girls go to bed in the coop by picking her up and putting her on the perch in there, but she just squawks at me and flaps back out to the nest box, even if there aren't any eggs in there. Even if I...

I can definitely bring them in AND split the coop and run in two for when they get big enough to go outside... but in that case, is there any benefit to putting the broody silkie in with the chicks at all? Would I be better off just having the chicks in a brooder with a heat lamp?

ok, if I'm going to try this, I have some specifc questions: 1. For some reason my hens have always liked to lay their eggs outside. I don't know if they disliked the nesting boxes I built or the wire floor inside the coop or what, but they all laid their eggs in a corner in the run. I gave...

That is ADORABLE.

eee, babies! SO fluffy and adorable My chicks are coming any day now and my favorite way to gear up for them is to look at how cute everybody else's are.

Quote: Not a space thing, for sure- we have a great big coop and run, for the number of girls we have. But I did wonder about the bullying thing... we had bought grown-up birds from someone local, and it turned out they had lived with hundreds of other birds so he had clipped their beaks- and...

Quote: That would be so great. I think I'll try it. I will of course be super paranoid and run out there every ten minutes to be sure she hasn't gotten up off them and wandered away, but if I can avoid the hassle of integration it will SO be worth it!

I'm always a little worried about integration... the first time I tried it I had no problems whatsoever, zero pecking, nothing. But the second time was horrible- the pecking was out of hand, and they wouldn't let the new chickens near the food... one of them starved. So I split the run in half...