Sophie with her bare back! (yes, that IS a collapsed tent in the background!)
Hope. You can barely even tell that she had a gaping hole in her head a year ago! She was getting angry with me (she is my sassy hen!) so I had to pick her up to take the pic so she wouldn't peck me!
Mary Ann. I had...
Sophie the brown one, Maddy the small white one, and Hope the bigger white one.
Mary Ann peeking out behind Hope
Mary Ann is a shy bantam hen :3
Hope got angry because I was taking her picture. She does that a lot though so I gave her a hug :)
Mary Ann in my lap. I had to catch her to take...
Hello, all!
This has to be the longest running conversation on Backyard Chickens! I haven't been on here in a while because all my chicks have hatched and are now one year old hens! Sadly I am not allowed to hatch any more because my coop is only built for four chickens.
Since I have been...
People are stealing your eggs?!?! Crazy!
I have gotten rid of my rooster because my hens have bare backs and he had caused one particular hen to hide in the nesting box all day out of fear. He was too aggressive to keep so someone came here and took him away. I am much more happy to have him...
OMG THAT POOR ROOSTER! XD If that was my rooster, it would have been the other way around- me hiding in the coop to get away from HIM!
Awesome interview, Sally! You are a very interesting person!
I would love to live in a place like where you live= near mountains/hills with lots of pet...
I am really wanting to post some pictures of my chickens. My chickens don't seem to be suffering with frostbit all too much, just a bit on the tips of their combs. The other day, I took a BBQ- brush/thing and put some petroleum jelly on it, and when they were on their roost at night, I just...
I hope this thread gives anyone with this same issue some hope in the future. Because all I did was clean out her cut with warm salt water and then put Polysporin (one that doesn't have the pain reliever in it- just the original formula) gently all over the wound about two to three times a day...
I heard about that cold snap that is happening in the States. We are just getting over one in the Maritimes now. There is waist- deep snow out there! Hopefully with the plus temperatures tomorrow (9 degrees Celsius), a lot of the snow will melt (and perhaps with the freezing rain in the...