Recent content by SueBaby

My girls have fleas. Many have told me chickens don't get fleas. Maybe they're stick tight fleas, I don't know, but they jump and have a flea's shape- they're definitely not mites. I tried using DE, but had no luck, and now it is truly an infestation. We are going to spray the girls with...

Went back and looked again. They are jumping!

One of my girls has what look like fleas on her wattle and around her face. They are clearly visible (not tiny specks like what mites are supposed to look like). They are dark brown (not light colored like lice), have elongated bodies (not rounded like mites). I pulled a couple of them out...

Some friends gave us corn that they grew that wasn't "good", as far as human tastes go. My guess is that they let it go too long and it was overly starchy. It's all dried, on the cob, although it's easy to pick off. Anyway, I thought it would be a great treat for my chickens, but they pecked...

I tried to find any mention of what's going on with my BR in previous forums, but didn't see anything. I posted something the other day, but someone just told me to give my hen a bath. I need more help than that, please! My hens are all over a year old. I have 7 and one of them, Millie, is...

I tried to find any mention of what's going on with my BR in previous forums, but didn't see anything helpful. So here's what's going on, I would appreciate any advice... My hens are all over a year old. I have 7 and one of them, Millie, is a Barred Rock. No one else is having the same...

Good for you!

I have a mutt/EE hen that is about a year old. Since maybe March or so it seems like every other week she starts to go broody. I lock her out of the coop all day and block the nesting boxes at night to help her snap out of it. It usually last between 3 days and a week. Then she'll stop the...

Your story bums me out, Shanachie. I guess that just reinforces that asking for forgiveness later is usually better than asking for permission ahead of time. My kids are at public school and no one would even think of asking someone higher up if it's OK to bring in something like chicks...

I took my chicks to 2 of my kids' classrooms (2nd and 4th grade), plus a kindergarten class when they were about 2 weeks old. I kept them in their big plastic brooder/bin and let kids come over to me and hold them one or two at a time. I had no thoughts of bio-security then (and I don't think...

I vote down with the raccoon. It's a chance you don't want to take. I'm sure that guy has been hitting up trash cans, ponds and anything else it can find in your area. It didn't come around just for your trap's seeds. On another note, I am intrigued with your bucket traps. Do they only...

Ha, that's the perfect way to put it. My husband would say that our yard looks like a bomb went off after they've been tearing it up for a few days.

snowk, not sure if you can say dominant/recessive with egg color, but it's something like this... white eggs = no color all the way through brown eggs = brown pigment laid over white (usually) blue eggs= blue all the way through green/olive eggs = brown pigment laid over blue There there are...

Wow, what a long thread. I'm in Oceanside. I see you all are meeting up on Sat. How often do you do that?

First one looks like a barred rock and a boy. Second looks girl-ish.