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I'm hoping someone here can help. I'm in Kingman, and one of my egg customers has a relative coming to visit from your fair city. The relative wants to buy some of my eggs, and will take them back to Flagstaff -on the bus! She apparently really likes the fresh eggs, and the different colors from...

It was 8 weeks old, and the dressed weight with the giblets was 7lb 3 oz. I thought that was pretty good, but really have nothing to compare to since it's my first. I'm planning on doing the remaining two at two week intervals, with the last maybe being frozen whole and served for Thanksgiving...

My 15+ year old Boston Terrier, Dexter, had what seemed like a panic attack this morning. Everything had gone as usual; I got up, let him out, fed the cats, let him back in, fed him, and continued with my normal morning routine. He was watching me fix my breakfast when it hit. This normally very...

My chicks from MMM came this morning! I got the call at 6:10 a.m. There was one dead, but the rest are fine-drinking, eating, and falling asleep as only chicks can do. The dead one is either a Cornish X or a white leghorn; does anyone know how I can tell? I'd like to replace it with one from the...

This is what some of my trees looked like early early this morning (about 4:00)! I couldn't resist putting on my boots so I could tromp around in the snow! It was GORGEOUS in the full moon. Now I need to trade camera for shovel and clear a few paths so the chickens will get out of the coop!

I'm wondering if any of you have the same problem with living, non-crowing alrms clocks that I do. On work days, I'm up between 3:30 and 4:00 A.M. Of course, the animals come first, so I feed the cats their canned food and feed the dog before I even start the coffee. However, on the weekends...

My hens!!! They've been getting Layena crumbles since they were old enough. I switched to Layena pellets for one bag. Then, even though I had less waste with the pellets, for some unknown reason, I thought they might not like them as well and switched back to crumbles yesterday morning. Filled a...

My son is now in Iraq, after several months of training. He had a safe ToD in Afghanistan recently, and am hoping for that in Iraq. He will be doing prisoner transport, which he assures me is safer than many other jobs. Please send good thoughts.

I did my 500th post! I am now officially "OVERRUN WITH CHICKENS"

I need some advice from those who keep roos with their ladies. Since my chicks are now 16-17 weeks old, it's time to switch them from Start 'n Grow. However, I will be keeping one of my cockerels, and have read that a steady diet of layer feed can be harmful to them. They free range several...

I bought five SLW's that were supposedly all pullets at the feed store about a month ogo or a bit longer, and have definitly pegged two of them as roos. The combs are bigger and distinctly red, and one has definite wattles already. Also, the wing feathers developed faster than the pullets, but...

MM had told me they would be here on the 20th, 21st, or 22nd, so I was sort of but not really expecting the call that came at 6:30 this morning from the PO. I dashed off to pick them up, and found 27 heathy chicks! Five Lt. Brahmas, ten BO's, eleven RIR's for my MIL, and the extra rare chick...

I have seen a link to a good article that I think was titled "Keeping Your Rooster Sane", and I didn't print it or bookmark it. Could someone please post that link again? Out of five SLW's that I picked up at the feed store from a batch that the clerk said was 99.9% pullets, I ended up with two...

These showed up two days ago. I think they are really cool, but my DH is not so impressed-says he got stung a lot as a kid. Didn't think it was too funny when I replied that they only sting to defend nest or self. I guess he stepped on some barefoot in a clover lawn when he was little, and...

I recently started giving my EE hen BOSS for a treat. It took her several days to try them, but now she really goes for them. She breaks them open and then eats the broken seed bits. It takes her quite a while, which is OK for now since she is my only adult. I guess I expected her to eat them...

Today I stopped at the feed store after work to pick up some black oil sunflower seeds for treats for my hen, and couldn't resist looking at the chicks. Two of the Speckled Sussex had pasted butts, and I tried to tell the store help that it needed to be gently cleaned off, that it could...

Here are a few photos of the SLW's that I just couldn't resist at the feed store today! And here is my one lone EE hen, BB Chicken.

I feel really dumb asking this, but I couldn't find the answer on the photobucket instructions. How do I put captions on the photos I post? The photos I posted were titled, but the titles didn't show up-only the photos.

Iv'e always just scattered the food for adult chickens on the ground, in several places to reduce the competition & pecking, rather than use a feeder. So far, everything has been OK. With what I am reading here about feeders, I'm wondering if that I am setting myself up for problems, or if I...