Recent content by ChickenGirl300

To me it sounds like you just have really rotten luck. A few weeks ago one of my girls died at 7, we’re calling it old age as she’s been slowly declining for a while. Last summer another died, she had crop issues a few months prior and never fully recovered, and never did very well in the heat...

Mine have never had much interest in the rainbow xylophone though. But I built a little jungle gym out of wood scraps. Gives them something to do besides run in circles lol

My black sex link hatched five chicks a few years ago. She and my EE have always been close, so she kind of adopted Bully’s chicks. 🥰 The other birds would run in fear, but EE was always allowed in.

Nope, around one o’clock in the afternoon. The pen is chain link covered in chicken wire, the roof in chicken wire and 1-1.5 inch hole wire. The only predators not obviously secured against are weasels and possums. Besides a fisher a few years ago, we’ve never seen a weasel or ferret on the...

Great article. After Thanksgiving, I’ll scrape some of skin off the pumpkin and let them eat into it. You can even do this so they carve the pumpkin themselves!

One of our chickens experienced the same thing. Did you ever figure out what did this?

Nope, no pets. A neighbor said owls sometimes kill hawks, but there was still no way into the pen. I'm thinking it was some sort of weasel or mink.

No, we don't. 2 six year old hens, and the three younger ones. And the hawk wasn't in the pen either, and there was no way in that we could find

Some come when I call them, but there's always some who just don't care enough about treats or know the older girls will bully them away from it. I use a Chicken Stick, which is actually just a six foot oak sapling I found dead in the woods. Now they know the stick means its time to move, so...

Hello, earlier today we found one of our chickens, Bailey, dead in the pen. She had no feathers on her head any neck, and all the flesh was cleanly gone. We have an automatic closing chicken door, but have never had a chicken stuck outide. Outide the pen, there was a hawk head. There is no...

Entry #2 Tequila the frizzle poses for a photo on a sunny fall day

A little, she's great if you can catch her. Then she's fine with being held, but she doesn't seek it out. She will hang out near you though if you're just working in the yard though.

Entry #1 Marigold the OE frizzle enjoying the patch of grass she found in the snowy yard. Her sister Moon is photobombing.

@TudyBOT where do I live?