Search results for query: *

Reality hit us yesterday. Our girls are 14 months old and all has gone great. We usually let them out of their run for an hour or two of loose supervision and have had zero problems. Yesterday with a house guest and a neighbor the girls were left alone for 10-15 minutes. As we gathered them...

Now, Gary, how can you consider getting rid of ANY of your girls??? You know you got them for pets that as a bonus, they "may" give you eggs!!! Glad to see the thread resurrected! BB

Am sorry this thread has slowed down so much but was probably inevitable with all of our chicks growing up. Yesterday for the first time our 11 girls ALL laid eggs! What a load of eggs and very exciting not to have any more slackers. Have been giving away eggs and hoping to be stockpiling...

That is a great picture! Thanks for starting my morning off with a laugh!

Gary: Good to see you again and glad that your flock is happy and healthy. Want to thank you for starting this thread as we have really enjoyed it. Our girls just turned 12 weeks old and can't believe how much fun we are having with them. Bought a kiddie swimming pool for the dust bath as...

Absolutely precious! You took great pics!!

My Meyer Meal Maker was a Buff Orpington too!

Hi! Our 11 girls did not use the roost until 10 weeks and now at 11 weeks use it exclusively at night instead of huddling on the floor of the coop!

Oh, Goodie! Some new chick questions, pictures, and stories, yipeee. Are you using a heat lamp(ugh) or a MHP? Info on your brooder, coop, and run, please. Our Meyer's girls were 11 weeks old today. Another supervised out of the run experience which is big fun. Looking forward to hearing...

Hi Merrymouse! Your Barred Rock boy would like my Barred Rock girl, Rhonda Lee. Here she is today with my New Hampshire Red, Brandy Mae. So I have 11 birds who are just about 10 weeks old and all appear to be pullets! At what age did Mr. Magoo start crowing? He is so beautiful! Give the no crow...

Mouse: I share your pain in trying to figure out the new format, grrrrr. On the rooster issue we had a problem with a neighbor's rooster last year before we got our girls. He lives directly behind our house and his rooster would start crowing at 4am and during warm periods we sleep with our...

Hi naturegeek168! Our house is in the Skagit Bay Audubon Important Bird Area which is home to 600-800 pairs of Bald Eagles. Turkey Vultures are actually not very common here on the island and one was noted as an unusual bird sighting on today's Whidbey Audubon website. They don't call me...

I am very familiar with Bald Eagles after living in BC for a number of years and having them land in trees on our lake front property. I have never seen this many before around our home here on Whidbey Island!! We routinely get a single bird doing a high fly bye but even that is like a weekly...

We put our girls in the coop at 10 days old with their Mama Heating Pad. We have a small door and ramp from the coop to the run which is fully enclosed and grassy(for awhile). We would open the door and the chicks would slowly make their way down the ramp for outdoor play. With some prompting...

You have NO self control! Welcome to the rest of us suffering from the same disease. Need pictures of your set up, you have dove in with both feet, whew. Where are you located?

Tomorrow the girls will be 6 weeks old and today we let them out of the run for their first ever free ranging!!!!! We kept an "eagle" eye on them and luckily they stayed together and near the run. The long grass was a big treat and we will do this more often as the weather allows, a beautiful...

More fun and a warning! We took a small chick roost and added a 1/8" dia. wire, sharpened on one end, pushed it thru the middle of a ear of corn and put each end of the wire into a hole on the perch supports. No interest at first, very disappointing, BUT then I put a couple of meal worms on...

I am just posting to see if this website is operational!!! This is the first time since we joined that the site as gone 24 hrs +/- without a single post!!!!! We are in the process of trying to establish a meal worm operation that will sustain treats for the girls. Ordered 2,000 worms back in...

I see an obvious case of child labor abuse! Your over seeding is a good idea and something we may try. At present our run is still in pretty good shape with grass but as the chicks grow we can assume their scratching and pecking of the grass will increase. We try and water every 2nd or 3rd...

The girls had watermelon for the first time yesterday. At first they were hesitant to try it but I sprinkled the slice with some dried mealworms then they decided to taste it and quickly devoured the whole thing!