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Can I help him or her at all? Like how u can with chickens…..I feel so terrible…1 of 12 that hatched is like this :( a friend asked me to incubate them for him ( he lost his quail to a predator, and his inc don’t hold quail eggs..) I know he won’t take this one…..but he’d cull it….and I can’t...

So, before I got my girls, we had a raccoon problem, but my dog, and FWC “took care” of it…hadn’t seen or heard from one for weeks….well yesterday while taking my kids on a family adventure ..I noticed a bunch of coons out during the day by the inlet, which is just 15 minutes from my house…so I...

So my husband is a beekeeper and visits multiple cow farms and always brings back dead cow bones...well I have enough to decorate my run with them, then I was going to paint a sign and hang it that says “Eat More Cow” 😂😂😂😂😂

So of course, once I realised I wasted 20 bucks on this funny little dome incubator that had no English instructions...and no heat insulating properties ect... list goes on....well after trying with chickens...and failing epically...I was like hell, why not incubate these 3 quail eggs and one...

Just got an IPad, but I’m used to finger drawing on my chrome book, def a game changer for me, here’s a few sketches so far, from my iPad. I’ll see if I can upload my chrome book ones somehow.

Heard lemon grass and lemon balm would keep out flies and mosquitos but are safe for chickens...anyone tried it yet?

This local farm, that sold fresh hatching eggs, let me come out and check out his birds...well....it was like...umm different....there...over 200 free ranging chickens...from large game fowl roosters, to huge Easter egger roosters, and naked necks....but mostly EEs from what I could tell...or...

Well, we bought a 10 month old crested creamLegbar...from a lady who purchases eggs from GFF and hatched them then sells full grown hens.....well supposedly she keeps her chicken breeds (Cuckoo Mayans, Bielefelders, and crested cream legbar) separate.....and she said she only has a bielefelder...

I woke up before the girls today, to get a head start...As I was making coffee I swore I heard what I thought was my cat (Mrs. Catz) meowing at the back door to be let in, so I stop and go to let her in, except it’s not her....it’s my cream legbar Lotus telling me that Mamosa my older...

So my back yard is perfectly safe to let my girls free range in but I’m just too anxietyfied about it...like there’s no escape holes or predators... or poisonous plants...but I just am scared like what if one of them could jump the 6 ft fence? Or what if they decide they don’t want to back into...

I got another bielefelder hen, a younger one this time, 6 months old. Well when I went to put her in the coop from the crate, she puffed and huffed and make CRAZY noises I’ve never heard a hen make before... She’s new to my flock so the other girls are confused by her strange behavior. Now she’s...

I got my 4th hen 2 days ago, was told she lays blue eggs. Is the cream egg hers or from one of my other girls? ( 1 Red Star, 2 Bielefelders)...

In search of a crested cream legbar. Anyone in my area with one they would part with?

So, since I’m a lone chicken enthusiast in my family....(they think I’m a crazy chicken lady)... I figured I could just show you my lovely hens...excuse their messy combs... I gave them a whole watermelon when it was 93 degrees out..so now they are all dusty with the gray sand that’s in my yard...

Hello all, I’ve decided to join you guys...and post my adventures with my first ever flock of backyard chickens. Where I live I’m only allowed 5 hens....so I decided to adopt 1 year old hens from Craigslist [yes I know....it’s risky] but I ended up finding a GFF breeder and was able to acquired...