Recent content by aprilfritts

New chicken mama here and our little flock of 6 bantam ladies are approaching their first winter. IT'S COLD OUT THERE! My girls are about 8 months old at this point. So, their "luxury condo" is insulated, I'm giving them warm water a couple of times a day and plenty of corn to fatten them up. I...

My 6 bantam girls (6 months old) have taken to sleeping UNDER the coop at night instead of IN it. They used to sleep in it, so I'm not sure what changed. Not a big deal when the weather was decent, but it's now getting too cold at night. So every night I am out there in the dark, grabbing them...

We have 6 bantams that are now just under 6 months old and not a single egg yet. It's been really wet and we've had a cold snap (the weather is supposed to break this weekend). At what point will they give us an egg??? It's our first flock, so we are pretty anxious.

This one had me laughing OUT LOUD... Free cow to good home. Brown/red white color. Good disposition, except around bees. Cow does not give milk. Unsure of sex, but has horns and either an udder or four penises. You haul.