Recent content by CAChicklette

OK...so I have one ameraucana and maybe one half ameraucana (not one I ordered but looks like a cross between the ameraucana and an buff orpington...maybe) along with two each of light brahmas, australorps, silkies, golden crested polish and one RIR. Getting all shades of brown, the cutest...

Just started this week at 21 weeks!!!! Woo hooooo!

Hey. Both our silkies (one rooster, one teeny tiny female) are pretty much loaners and don't nestle in with the other chickens (9) I just turned on my lamp now (in a 6X8 coop). I start with 175 watts and work up to 250 by mid winter...in the great white North (snow today). Anyway...try making a...

Awesome! She is beautiful. I have a gal who hasn't started laying yet looks just like that..I am hoping for that nice an egg soon! Her name is Chakka Kahn the Americauna:

So I put pine tar on Frances' tail end to dissuade the others from pecking it? Interesting..it'd go with her coloring! Thanks for the welcome. I'll post pix soon as I figure that out;-)

Don't dispair...it's all part of the learning curve! I agree with coccidiosis. I learned it's a bacteria that's found in all soil...but three things are important...dry, clean and food off the dirt. If your chicken tractor is in a particularly damp or usually damp area...try to find a dry patch...

I have a mixed flock of 11, which includes a docile Black Silkie rooster and an amorous but generally kind Golden Crested Polish Roo. I also have a golden crested female named Frances. Frances is not and has never been "all there" (she runs into things a lot, always a beat behind the other birds...