Recent content by bunrabbit41

I have always fed the Rural King brand of feed which is made by Cargill and have not had to supplement it with calcium. I also use their Bunny Food for my spoiled rotten House Bunnies and have compared it very closely to Purina Green Bag in quality. I know that the Rural King Brand is somewhat...

Wow, maybe it's beginners luck, but we ordered 24 pullets (buff orphingtons) from a very reputable hatchery and that's exactly what we ended up with . and of course the one "free" one turned out to be our EE roo! This year's trip to the local feed store turned out to be a little different...

This has suddenly become of interest too me as well as my neighbor suddenly thought he had 5 roosters (7 weeks) rather than 5 hens. He was a little up tight to sayt he least. The picture of the little pullet standing in the pyrex bread tin has the same pointy tail as the 5 next door so...

EE, he looks much like my Carouso! Very unique crow, as well.

Has anyone had any sucess with getting their chickens to play in a kid's swimming pool? I heard some guy talking about putting one of his hens into the adult pool with them (on the radio) and he said that the hen just sort of bobbled along and rather enjoyed it. Seeing my kids are all grown...

I used to live in La Crosse, WI and for all of the push in that city to "go green", you'd think that the citizens would get the fuzz out of their heads and get with the times! Getting a chicken ordinance passed with a "sunset clause" attached to it?????? What are the chickens going to become...

Living in Madisonville, having chickens and having a son who is very interested in pursuing a living building small 6-hen backyard chicken coops, we've spent some time researching the ordinances of cities in the area. The city fathers of Henderson need to go back and READ the city ordinances...

OK, so after surviving 23 years in the Army, raising 5 children on my own, survivng a couple of dozen house bunnies and all of their antics, three cats, and a Maremma Sheep dog, I got this silly notion to return to my roots. I acquiesed to letting my adult son, who lives with me, build a...