Recent content by PBlanck

Does anybody know if this actually worked? Should it be poured down the holes or just placed in piles in the coop?

Thank you for that link. That gives me a few things to look for and actually helped me diagnose a problem I had with a previous bird

In May we took our mature hens to stay at our lake place and purchased five baby chicks at the store to restart our flock at home in the city. All was fine at first. They grew indoors, all were happy and healthy. When they were big enough I moved them outside. After they were outside for a...

About 6 weeks ago a neighbor's dog got into our back yard and attacked our free ranging chickens. One chicken was killed. Another one, a Buff Orpington was injured. She lost a 2-3 inch strip of feathers from her head all the way to her tail. She looked horrible, a completely bare neck. She...

We live in the city and I let my chickens free range roughly 50% of the time. We built a new deck off of our kitchen with stairs going down into the yard. The hens keep coming up the stairs and pooping. It is really starting to piss off my wife (who is not a big fan of the chickens). I don't...

This is our first broody at our new house /new coop (we have had several broodies at our old coop where the nesting box was on the ground). The nesting boxes are elevated and the bottom is hardware cloth. Now that she is broody and sitting on eggs I am concerned that there is nothing in place...

My chickens usually go broody around March 15th. I moved since last year and the coop I built at the new house has an elevated inside structure where the chickens lay eggs and stay when the weather is too cold. The ramp up and down is about 12 inches wide and very steep. My concern is that...

I have 3 chickens; Dotty (a barred rock), Buffy (Buff Orrington ) and Gertrude (a dirty white colored chicken that I can't identify). Gertrude is extremely smart and can be fairly aggressive. Lately she has been picking on Buffy and doing serious harm. Buffy got to the point where she would...

Just wait. There is no rush to thow out an egg.

What we did with our broody hen was we candled at night. We just reached under her, pulled out an egg and then candled it. Since it was dark out she did not move and we did not have to take the egg anywhere to candle it. After all the eggs were candled we put them back under her. That was...

Yes, my advice is to just wait. They will either hatch or they won't I have done the candling thing once. My hatch success rate has been much better when I have not unnecessarily handled them. I understand candling is kind of exciting but things will run their course if you just let them. I...

Pest control was the original reason we got chickens. Our family property at the lake had become overrun with millipedes. There were some summer nights where you could walk outside and they were so thick you could not see the sidewalk, just a sea of black millipedes. We tried everything. I...

That is an awesome video, thanks for sharing!

I have 5 hens, 2 are too old to lay, the other 3 are roughly two years old. I have a timed light that goes on around 2AM to make sure they get plenty of light. They quit laying in early December. I noticed they seemed to be molting so I turned the light off until last week and now have it...

Thanks for the feedback! Nobody is picking on her, so no issues there. I was just wondering if anybody on here would recognize her problem. If it is permanent, I am OK with it as she seems to have learned how to cope. But if it degenerative then I would have to consider putting her out...