City Girl - Needs Acreage
I am close to the city centre on a main road here in BrisVegas (aka Brisbane). Our home is an old Queenslander with a number of bottle brush trees, casias and lillypillies planted around. These trees encourage birdlife, so I of course, have included a bird bath in all...
The only thing I can think of, is the chimney still open? Might it be too cold, draughtwise for her.
But apart from that it sounds as though a space that isnt being used, is okay for a small nighttime coop.
Good luck
Yes I am in Australia so it would appear that Americaunas are different standard then to the US ones??
Am confused re: saddle feathers and crests. I will look into that a bit more?
But am feeling a tad sad to be hearing that you are thinking theres a boy in here... But I am feeling that for Lady...
Thanks for your replies. I have been meaning to take photos of them but have been slack.
Here they are and I apologise that I dont take great photos, but these are my girls Lady Pearl and Violet.
I hope to hear that you believe they are girls. And while we are talking of girls what age do they...
Hi Guys - I am stuck for an answer and thought with the amount of experience lurking here; there will be someone with an answer for me hopefully.
I have bought two Lavender Ameraucana girls. First time experience with this breed.
They had been sexed and sold to me as girls.
They are about 20...
Chickens are so flexible and have such simple needs - food and water and a place to sleep
I was worried cooping mine up all the time after NEVER being in a run.
They settled really quickly - all their food is their own (don't have to share it with the wild birds), and they are safe ALL the time...
As you want specific areas scratched and fertilized, would you better off utilising a chicken tractor?
Easy enough then to move around, keeping them safe, you don't have to worry about forgetting to pen them up at nights then either.
Yep I understand.
I have thought it wonderful that there are no bugs in the yard/garden. But I have NO garden either.
So I have penned the girls up and am loving walking around, not stepping in poop and planting herbs etc again in the garden beds.
Thanks guys. My construction looks funny but works.
I have planted a cucumber vine that hopefully will grown over the top covering and give the girls shade in summer (we are still winter here).
Our suburb is such an old suburb that we don't even have snakes here to worry about. The only...
Well when the dog fatally injured one of the Red Sisters I decided the days of free ranging were over.
So I moved the coop over next to the kids cubby house and with a good supply of tomato stakes, chicken wire and a staple gun I managed to put a run around the coop. Its quite a sight but...
I am fed up with tattered gardens and poop and made the decision to pen up my 4 girls.
Now the Red Sisters don't mind but the other two are depressed, I think.
They have only ever free ranged their entire lives; I feel bad for them but I am hoping they will adjust.
Have ordered another pen so...
Being birds they have a inbuilt fear of predators. They dont know that the coop is safe.
If they were out they would nest in the trees - among the leaves and branches..
Sleeping in the nest was a good sign where she felt safe; as birds will usually sleep in the highest spot.
Good luck.
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No offense taken. No one was more surprised than me when I saw what she had in her mouth. She's gone to kitty heaven now (brown snake got her in her old age), but she taught me the lesson, that you just never know what they are capable of.
My current cat, is scared of my hens.
I had a siamese cat once who killed a four month old pullet and dragged it up a tree and was meowing for me to open the window to let her into the house. (We had a high set home and if the back door was shut she used the tree to alert us of her need to...
Some of my thoughts on runny eggs are:
diet might need more protein. (increase protein in diet)
is the chook too hot. (Try and reduce heat factor ie. cool water)
is the chook old. (sometimes happens as they get older)
sometimes chooks have a genetic fault.
That's all I can think of. Hopefully...
Mikey - only dumb question is the one not asked. This is the coop section; but the photo section of the coops has a lot of information in it. Just have to trowel through each one though, as some have indepth info on how they built it.
How can a little ball of fluff manage to evoke such love within our hearts.
I am so sorry for your loss. Hugs a thousand fold during this difficult time
Your memories of her will intime be ones ones of joy will replace the raw pain you have currently.
I am so sorry for you...
I have a 3 year old cocker spaniel. He was 12 weeks old when we brought him home - amongst the chickens.
It has taken 3 years of constant attention (the first 2 years were the worst). I still would not leave him alone in the yard without me at home; though I can leave him in the yard while I...