Recent content by Amy Chickie

Last night I slipped three chicks under my hen and at first it went really well! But this morning she didn't want anything to do with them. She's not aggressive toward them, but she's also not interested in them. So I brought them back inside to the brooding box. Now I'm trying supervised...

Too cute!

Welcome! I'm a California transplant now living in Idaho. Back home I had a lot of friends who were nursing students so I think it's great! The Air Force is great too

Thanks! That makes me feel a bit better. I'll go turn on the heat lamp in the guest bathroom to get it warmed up so I can bring them inside soon.

Hmmm, thanks. I've been introducing them to her about once per hour and since she's not at all aggressive toward them do you think it might be worth it to give her one more night? Or do you think that's way too risky? When/if I bring them back inside should I continue with supervised visits...

I let my cats watch my chicks so they could get used to each other, but I always made sure the chicks were safe. I kept their brooding box inside the guest room bath tub so they could be completely closed off from the cats when we weren't there to supervise. We finally introduced the cats to...

Awww, very sweet! I love your golden laced, I just adopted some baby silver laced Wyandottes and although they're cute and fuzzy I can't wait for their beautiful adult feathers to come in!

Yea!!!!! I have day old babies and on the one hand I can't wait for them to grow up, but on the other hand they're so precious and they're going to grow up too fast.

Since she's never raised chicks before it's hard to tell. The only thing which I have to judge is she sits on her eggs for a long time making me think that she might be broody, or at least this is worth a shot especially since Buff Orpingtons have a reputation for being broody and for being...

Last year we adopted and hand raised three little Buff Orpington chicks who we named Lois, Francine, and Donna. Donna turned out to be a Donald and so we had to give him away , luckily we found a farmer who needed another rooster and was intrigued by our Donald who was hand raised by two young...

Greetings! I'm from Napa but I'm now I'm living in Idaho. I was talking with a local winemaker the other day who is also originally from Napa and it turns out that she grew up two blocks away from my house back home in Napa and she went to the same school that my kids did! It's either a small...

Welcome from a native Northern Californian now in Idaho! You can take the girl out of California but you can't take California out of the girl

Greetings to you and to everyone back home in SF Bay Area. I was born and raised in Silicon Valley, graduated from SJSU, moved to Napa Valley, now in Idaho for three years. You can take the girl out of California but you can't take California out of the girl!

Greetings from Idaho's Treasure Valley!