I haven't posted to BYC in quite some time. It's good to be back. My female Pilgrim goose recently made an ill fated attempt at escape that left her on the wrong end of an electric fence. Unfortunately she did not survive. This has left me with one very lonely, very vocal Pilgrim gander who...
A dear friend of mine had a bantam hen to hatch out a clucth of chicks that she thought we just had to have. Being infected with the chicken sickenss, we were unable to disagree. I wanted to build a coop for them that was seperate from the main coop. I also wanted this mini-coop to be useful...
I will try to keep this page updated as we add members to our little flock.
Knowles, our rooster. He was one of our first purchases. A rather handsome fellow I think.
B was also one of our first purchases. We hope she will be the "incubator in residence". B is the head chicken in charge...
We started our chicken adventure by converting a storage shed in the back yard into a chicken coop. Step one was to clean out the shed. 21 spider bites later, I had a clean shed and a whole new appreciation for benadryl. The exterior of the shed stayed pretty much as it was.
I added a wire...
Recently we took an amazing trip to the Isle of Palms and Charleston. After returning home we entered a photo into a contest sponsored by the realty company we rented from. Though I don't spend as much time on BYC as I once did, I would greatly appreciate it if you would "like" my photo on...
Thanks for the feedback. After a little more research I think they are what ideal calls a production black. The production black seems to essentially be a California gray. As for the comb, while the comb is large it seems be large in a leghorn sort of way and not really a roosterish way, if...
A few weeks ago we ordered a pullet assortment from Ideal Poultry. Initially we thought we had several Barred Rocks as they have grown, we aren't so sure that they all are Barred Rocks. There are several that look like this one. The barring is quite mottled, their combs are rather large and...
Does anyone need/want a flock of guineas? My partner just got a new position that will allow him to work from home and the noisy, crazy birds are going to have to go to a new home. There are 13 total. I am asking $75 for the flock but will entertain offers. I also have 2 pairs of partridge...
Natalie, Trudy and Blair. Their mother is a buff silkie and their father is a birchen-ish cochin of questionable parentage. They have 5 toes and a single comb. Blair and Natalie have black combs and wattles while Trudy has red.
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I saved all the t shirts my son got
from his wrestling tournaments over all his years in school.. ( 100 or more) i took the best ones and made them into a quilt for him to take to college. where he is sophmore wrestling .see if he has any old favorite t shirts and use them...
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It was a lot like Cades Cove, minus the crowds of impatient tourists who think history and wildlife should be viewed as rapidly as possible from the interior of an air conditioned car.
From my experience in working on the barns on our property, vertical boards shed water better...
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It was very interesting. Because we hiked it, we walked around on our own. There is no signage to indicate what the various buildings were or who lived there so we had to make educated guesses. A lady I worked with took the tour a couple of years ago. She said a ranger takes you to...
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The nest boxes were not accesible from the inside.
There was no real "people" door. Only the small door in front that would require some crawling through.
The floor was a wooden floor at the level of the logs, sitting atop the piers. The vertical boards seem to serve only to keep...
This past Sunday, we took a hike to the Hensley's Settlement in the Cumberland Gap National Park. It was a ten mile round trip and we were exhausted, but it was well worth it. One of the more interesting buildings was this chicken coop. The interior contained only roosts. I found it...