Reviews by Mimi13

If only all chickens could receive this wonderfully loving life. Excellent way to care for your birds in the cold.

I love it all. Y’all did an excellent job. A duck-perfect house and beautiful addition to your property. What is in your duck soup that they love so much?

Once again, an excellent tutorial with a light-hearted presentation. I for one appreciate that. I have never thought about this method of disposal either. Thank you!

Like Shad, I, too, find it hard to believe your article has not been reviewed more. Giving an instruction sheet is an excellent idea. And yours is an excellent tutorial. I am certain it helps more than hurts.

Also, as soon as I started reading it, I realized you have a secret. You are a kind-hearted fella, Ralphie!

Maybe more people don’t need to read this...and expose your crusty persona as a fraud!

Your articles have come just in the nick of time. I have been wanting my own microscope so I can keep a close watch, not only of my flock of 37 chickens, but my herd of 6 horses, and my pack of 7 dogs. Heck, I might even test my DH for worms! Uh, no! Just kidding on that one.

All jokes aside, reading your articles has lit a flame inside of me and reminded me how much I loved my bio and chem classes.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and time with the BYC community. It is much appreciated.

Thank you for this in-depth tutorial on microscopes. Here’s hoping I can find my way around one.

I am getting ready to purchase my own microscope and after reading this article I have much less research to do. Thank you!

ETA: Thank you as well for the mini biology course. It has been quite a while since my last biology and chemistry courses.

I love your Goldie and I know you miss her. Mutton Chop and LF are two very lucky girls. And you’ve done a marvelous job helping them recuperate. They don’t even look like the same birds!

And I LOVE your huge run.

Very nice coop. I especially love the camera and am totally jealous.

Hearing the excitement from the rooster just makes me smile. Thank you for sharing.

I love the design and internal flow of your coop. You will absolutely love your side of the coop. I have a section for me as well and dearly love it. It allows me to store everything “chicken” (properly wrapped to avoid the dust and such) in the coop, except my incubators. Your coop is 6’ longer than mine, so that means you’ll love yours even more than I do. Great job, Junkman!

Beautiful birds. I wish I knew what all breeds they are/were. They are definitely championship looking birds, that’s for sure.

Thank you for a snipet into the life of keeping guineas. It is something we are thinking about (for tick control) and love reading all about these strange little birds.

Thank you for these “old” recipes, @paront. They are much appreciated!

for Thankfulness!

These birds are lovingly taken care of for the ultimate sacrifice to feed many.

Sometimes I feel people don’t really think much about the last minutes of a chicken’s life as they are hunted down by a predator. Nature? May very well be, however, so is the processing for human food and much, much more humanely.

I began reading this article, as I have many, in hopes of finding an answer to a problem I’ve encountered with too many of my cockerels, 6 to be exact. I am to the point of thinking I’ll never be able to keep a cockerel, much less dream of having a beautiful, mature rooster. I am not one for giving up on anything, and please don’t tell me I can’t do something, because I sure enough will prove you wrong...until it comes to cockerels, that is.

Out of my last batch of eggs that I incubated, 7 out of 8 were male. Yeah! Go figure! Anyway, I took this as a sign to do a little experiment. I mean, I have enough birds to experiment with, right? There’s no way I’d be keeping all 7 anyway, so if my project doesn’t work, no harm done, chicken soup it is.

They were all mixed birds and two of the males were given more attention from the get go, and naturally I bonded with them. They were my first and they were prettier.

When all 7 were running loose with the flock, even though none presented any ill will toward me, they were like a gang of thugs running loose on the streets and were wreaking havoc on my girls. So now, five are in the batchelor pen/soup holding pen and the two I like are still with the girls.

So far things are going good and I’m hoping beyond hope that I’ll be able to employ some of the suggestions in this article to help me correctly raise a decent boy, if not two.

Hallelujah, this information is what I’ve been waiting for and I didn’t want the article to end! Thank you, thank you!

This was an amazingly heart warming story. I love your coop and, YES, it was all meant to be!

This study was very interesting to read. While I also thought it would be somewhat predictable, I couldn’t wait to read what the actual results were. Very good experiment.

Wonderful insight to chicken behavior when compared to space. Never had I thought of each chicken having its own square foot, thus making the extra square footage “shared” space.

I enjoyed this article as much as your other one on what people need to know about chickens. I’m sorry I can’t remember the real title. Your experience with chickens and your way of writing are what create the best stories ever. It’s what everyone needs to know, good and bad, presented with the ever present humor that makes us all want to keep reading.

I’m not sure how old you are so I don’t know if you will know my reference of Erma Bombeck, but she presented things you really needed to know in such a humorous way. I read them all.

Great job and keep it up.

I built my own coop as well, after purchasing a miserably small and awkward prefab coop, and know exactly what you mean by trial and error. In my case it was trial and error, error, error! But I definitely wouldn’t change that part.
Your instructions are spelled out exactly with just the right amount of humor. As we all know, being a chicken keeper requires a certain level of humor.
I love the look and functional design of your setup, but I really love the interior layout of your coop.