Recent content by beckster

Thank you for the words of sympathy. I will be visiting the Incubating and Hatching Eggs forum to get some tips. I hope I can gather up enough eggs from my two remaining laying hens to make it worth hatching. I don't have a whole lot of time as I am studying for the bar exam. We might just...

First I want to say I really enjoy all the stories and advice on BYC. I mostly just "lurk" here but I thought I would post my story from today. My chickens free range during the day where I board my horses. A fairly large property a couple miles away from where I live, so I am not around...

We have 2 roosters. The Buckeye we call Little Jerry (from Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets a rooster). So of course, the second rooster is named George (Silver laced Wyandotte). In sticking with the theme, he also have a GL Wyandotte who is very round with short legs so she sorta waddles...

Well, I guess I'm not sure. Would it be better just to give them the tails?

I made crawfish for dinner tonight and I was just wondering if I could feed all the leftovers to the chickens? Has anyone done this? I don't have a whole lot of experience with crawfish, so I don't know if it would work, but I was thinking about putting them in the food processor to break them...

Can you add me? I am in Lubbock, TX

These three came to me from another home, and this picture was taken the day after I got them. This poor Sussex is at the very bottom of the pecking order, and apparently, she got all but one of her tail feathers pulled out (besides looking generally haggered and beat up) by her previous flock...

28,597 + 16 = 28,613 a handful of hens and a rooster we call Little Jerry (for you Seinfeld fans)

Newbie here. I got a couple of buckeyes from a friend and I was hoping someone might be able to tell me if they are pullets or roosters. One obviously has a more developed comb than the other, but I'm not sure if they are the same age. I was thinking that they might just be at different...