Ok, here's the deal ~ I bought an incubator off of eBay, and the dude took my money & ran. Thank goodness I payed with paypal, so I should get the $$ back, but I am still left without an incubator, and I would really like to get one.
SOOO ~ does anyone on here have an incubator they would like...
A gal who loves Phantom of the Opera commissioned Wood Genius to carve one of those foam pumpkins with a Phantom of the Opera theme. This is what he came up with:
This is what it looked like in the light, with no internal lighting.
This is the view from one side to the other
~Red
Well, good news & bad news ~ I just inherited some little black silkie hens from a friend who got them & some banties off of freecycle.
Unfortunately, she didn't want them because she said they were nippy toward her new little colored ranger meat chicks.
So I offered to take them. ( who...
jkcove08 (Jen)( & anyone else who feels so inclined)~ I posted this already, but thought that perhaps it wouldn't be fair to hijack cobbs thread with all of my questions, so I am re-posting it here ~ Also, I would like to purchase some quail eggs.
Hey Jen ~ we are looking to get some button...
We got our 1st egg today!!! ~ Friday was day one of 17 wks, so we have been keeping our eyes peeled, thinking that surely any day now... AND IT HAPPENED TODAY! YEAAHHH!!!
Of course, it was lying over by the waterer, as though she had been getting a drink and just plopped it out where ever she...
Well, for those of you who grimaced with me over the whole 2-legged menace ordeal ~ ( https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=73353 )
I thought I would show off some pics of my ladies ~ ( only one poor hen out wandering the neighborhood still ~ don't know if she'll ever make it...
Ok, so maybe menace is a better word. The sneaky sleeper chicken menace.
I just have to sound off here. My neighbor has 2 little kids, ages 2 & 4. They are quite cute, love to come over & see the chickens, & we babysit them from time to time. So they are pretty comfortable over here...
I was taking pics of the ladies today as part of the 4-H dealio, and a few of them...cooperated... thought I'd share ~
..and THEN I told HIM....
(black australorp..hen, I hope)
Heeeeyyyy ~ I squaawwkk at everything ( must be a roo??)
(either a buff brahma or a mille fluer d'uccle)...
Well, I thought it might be fun to post a few pics of our treehouse ~ I blogged about it, ( http://redhead83402.blogspot.com/ )
and so many folks really liked it, so I thought, what the heck, I don't have a coop to show off yet, so I'll do the next best thing, and show yah all my treehouse...
Hi All! We had purchased all 10 chicks (2 for each kid), and then I decided I just HAD to get 2 for myself as well ~ then one little one died ( one of mine) ~ so naturally I had to go get another, but the ones at the feed store just looked so.... mangy ~ so... I went to another feed store, and...