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Another South Jerseyan here! Cumberland County...near the Cape May / Cumberland County border. We have 7 hens right now and are getting a good supply on eggs from them.

I forgot to mention when she was first attacked, they had pecked at her one eye and I thought she'd lose it, but it healed. But I'm not sure if she is blind or not. To get her to eat or drink, I have to sometimes splash the water or wiggle my finger in her food so she hears and then goes over...

This thread is so helpful. We have a hen, Gertie, who I have been trying to nurse back to health. It all started probably about two months ago. I opened the coop to let our two hens and one rooster out for the day and Gertie didn't want to come out. Finally she did, but she couldn't really...

So sorry for your loss. RIP dear Spock. I know it is hard when you lose one of your animals. They are part of your family. He had a good life by the sounds of it.

I have a big kitty litter container full of poo that I collected from using the PDZ stuff. I was just wondering if the poo would be safe (which has bits of the PDZ on it) to use on vegetables?

Welcome Green Acres!

Yesterday I went to get the eggs in the coop (it's a raised coop that I have to climb into to get the eggs out. I don't an egg box that I can just reach in to get the eggs out. They lay their eggs in a milk crate in the back of the coop. I hope you can understand the setup). Anyway, I climbed in...

I just purchased some horizontal nipple feeders and I can't say enough good things about them!! Before I had them I was constantly cleaning out their water bowl. I first just had the bowl on the ground. Then tried raising it some, but they still got the water dirty. I finally had enough and...

Thank you for the warm welcome. This site is great. I have been reading a lot of interesting things so far. Wow, sorry about the loss of your chickens, llandry. This isn't about chickens, but two days ago I had a black rat snake wrapped around a bird feeder pole just waiting for a bird to land...

I am a pretty recent newcomer to BYC and thought I'd chime in. I am in south jersey( Cumberland County) and we have a few chickens. We had a white leghorn that was being picked on this past winter. So I separated her from the other 4 RIR's and rooster. Something (still not sure what it was) got...

Love the idea of waving and screaming hi to her, newbie!!!!!