Recent content by reindeermama

Thanks everyone. I am excited about moving. I was just looking at ordering chicks. (and now I can have cows, and maybe pygmy goats for the kids) I think Guineas fowl too.

We are downsizing to a smaller home on 28 acres. Which is cool because I get to have more real chickens, but there is very little space to display all my chicken décor. I never realized I had so much of it. lol I guess I will have to sell some of it. Never thought I would have that problem. At...

I have been so busy working part-time and homeschooling. I don't get much time to comment. I love looking at all the neat décor. Happy Easter everyone!

My mom, later on found some bushes to buy at Zimmer Nursery in Beeville. The ones in the ditches were off limits after she found out. I bet if you needed to, you could order them at a local nursery, or dig some up in the woods. Grandpa's friend did have to cover them with bird netting to keep...

I remember picking dewberries with my Grandpa. I think it is usually in March or April. I know Grandma would make dewberry cobbler, and if we found enough, dewberry jelly. We picked them out of ditches by the railroads. One of our neighbors dug up a few bushes from the ditch and planted them in...

I have never fed medicated feed. I guess I have been lucky. I thought they didn't get it if their brooder was keep really clean. I probably should fed medicated from now on. But, you don't feed it if they have been vaccinated for it? I think some hatcheries do vaccinate for it. On another...

I ordered some frizzled cochins, and black polish from them. They were great, and easy to work with. The chicks I got were lively, happy little things.

Last night, near Leakey, we had a funnel cloud start to come down above the house. It started shaking, and I was getting ready to grab my son and run. He looked at me and said "Mom, I think we are having an earthquake." The house was shaking bad. I think it was just the down drafts. God was...

I had a blue splashed Wyandotte. I gave her to my daughter. She was very sweet, but not a great layer. However, I believe she didn't lay that great because she was breed more to show than to lay eggs. I think you will be happy. I have always had good luck with McMurray. I have 3 Easter Eggers...

I order some bantam frizzled cochins from Ideal Hatchery. They are cute little things. I only got five. They are healthy and growing like weeds. I have only one that did not frizzle.

Gosh, hope you are okay with the rain. They are saying Granbury is flooding on the news down here near Corpus. Everybody I know touts sand, and that is what I am fixing to do. We are putting bricks around edges of runs and then filling with sand. It is supposed to dry quicker, and I am tired...

I have only used aspen shavings. We are in town. I will have to try hay. I was scared to use it because I was told if you live in a humid climate it will grow a fungus that is harmful to chickens. It is not uncommon for our humidity to be above 60 percent. They said the sand would dry up the...

I am going to try sand in my coops to help the fly problem, and pots planted with rosemary, and basil which are supposed to repel flies. It is worth a shot.

I am about an hour away from Victoria. My cousin lives there. We often take a day and come to shop or go the park.

Someone told me to hang the little car tree deodorizers in vanilla around your coop. They said flies don't like the scent. I got some at the dollar store very inexpensively. I think they were a dollar a piece. Seems to help. Someone also said this is fly season anyway, and flies are rampant...