Recent content by achickymama

Thank you!!!!

All hens look all over heathy, super red combs/wattles, shiny feathers (what little some have!) and I'm getting about 7 eggs a day from 8 girls. Skins not irritated. This one in particular is definitely not broody. Hmmmm....I cleaned the coop and treated with DE but I saw nothing creepy crawly.

I brought this girl in to bathe her, get a better look at her bare bum and to check for mites. This is what I found and I have no idea what to think! It looks like the dark spots are dried blood from the feathers and they didn't wash off. Any ideas? I have several girls who look like they're...

Awesome! Thanks Chris!

Thanks! My boys are not very cooperative lately so I'm thankful my girls are great subjects ;)

We actually plan to fence all that in with the run and keep their dust bath under there.

I snapped this shot the other day when my son and I were hanging out with the girls. He was chowing down on a honey crisp and when he accidentally dropped it, there was a frenzy trying to get to it. Looks to me like Daisy is telling Pepper to try it out first

Here's our coop :) I want something bigger and more vintage glam for our next one but with our small yard, this will do for now :)

I am positively SWOONING over your coop!

I should also add I'm trying the deep littler method for this winter and so thats where my main concern is coming from. I want to make sure they have good air quality while keeping the moisture down.

Well thats good to know :) I'm mostly concerned about our 0 to 20 below snaps. I'm hoping they'd be ok with the pop door open because doing much more work to the coop is gonna drive my husband up a wall

Final update: Whatever caused them to get so swollen and black is beyond me. After a few days of the topical meds, her waddles are healthy again. After they were black, they turned white and then back to red. I'm guessing it wasn't frostbite after all but it seems so unlikely that both sides...