Recent content by Rae_37066

Quote: lol.. congrats on your first eggs.. I was like that when my girls first started laying. Now I get 35 eggs a day and they are running me out of house and home. I sell a lot but still give a lot to the Nashville rescue mission. They love them, They act a lot like you when I take 150...

Update on Bird....That's his name.. I still have him. His feathers are back and he is a very pretty boy. It seems that raccoons moved into the area the pigeons were living at hubby's work and they all left, so we decided to keep bird for a bit longer. We made him a cage that is 24x36 and 36...

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Mojo Chick'n : Quote: I apologize if my opinion offended you. Perhaps stupid was too harsh a word. Self-defeating was not. It is my opinion that when a person can get grocery store eggs for $1.89/dozen it is self-defeating to sell a BETTER product for much much less. And yes, I would...

Quote: Yet another reason why wider roosts are better for chickens. They are more comfortable having the foot flat whle sleeping; it is not natural for them to hang onto a pole, as it is for so many other birds. The usual recommendation on here is the wide side of a 2x4. For really large...

Quote: thanks, mine are 4 weeks and they just look real scruffy right now because they are just getting their feathers.

Quote: The rest of your post I understood, but I don't know what you mean here. Explain please? the post I was answering told me to cross my fingers lol, I had no clue of what I meant either. I had to reread the other post .lol

How can you tell they are roo's? the EE's are hard to tell (for me) I have 14 but they are all chicks and none of them are crowing yet.

also it seems if you flip the chicken onto it's back it seems to quiet down and go to sleep. either that or they knew I was trying to help them. It didn't seem to hurt them when I squeezed.

I noticed today that several of my chickens had a swollen foot, after reading on here I have decided it is bumblefoot( the pics look the same as their feet). I went to doctoring them. I cut around the scab part and pulled it out and squeezed and a large piece of yellow blob came out. I put...

3 Adults, 6 acres, and a bunch of grateful friends that are happy to pay for fresh eggs over store bought eggs any day. They pay $1.00 a DZ and was broken hearted when they all went on strike due to the heat and being broody I have 23 laying Leghorn hens with 5 of them broody, 2 leghorn roo's...

Quote: , me too, I know the feeling

Quote: They do tend to fly a lot. right in the dog pen and then we have to go save the chicken. We did lose a roo that flew in and we didn't see him go in to holler the dogs off. They killed the chicken by pouncing on it and broke the neck and wing. Didn't bite or pierce skin though...

Quote: I have 22 Leghorns and have 5 - 6 broody chickens. I am letting 4 of them sit eggs, they hiss and puff up at me when I try to get them out of their boxes. I take them out once a day, they eat, drink, mess and go back to the eggs. It was cute until they all seem to want babies. I...

Quote: I took some leghorn eggs over to a friends house and told him that I really enjoyed the chickens and I wanted to get some EE and start getting a blue or green egg. He started laughing and said someone is pulling your leg, chickens don't lay that color egg. Well I bought me an EE laying...