Recent content by chickfinland

Hi everyone :) I have 3 geeses now, one male and two females, they get along nicely, and last spring (2012) the older female 6y. old, layed about 30 eggs and she tried to incubate them but stopped before anything came out. I incubated 3 eggs my self and 2 babys hatched. Now my year old girl...

We will leave geeses and ducks outdoors next summer, and we have to build new coops for them, wich give protection from rain, snow and wind. We have actually started this operation, but everything else seams to go ahead of it, well we don't need the coop before summer :D This is something like...

I don't know if this product is even available in US but I have been using strawpellets for 4 months now and it's the BEST I've ever tried with chickens :) It absorbes 4 to 5 time it's weihgt of water, it smells nice and need really rare cleaning. I haven't actually cleaned in this time, but...

I have an Aylesbury couple, they are beatiful, playful and mostly wobble in my feet :D I'm not sure what male duck is called, but my male grew so fast that it's legs allmoust gave in :( at 2 weeks old he took massive growing frenzy and gained 1,5 kilograms (3,3 pounds?) in two weeks time :O We...

WOU this is beatiful! This last winter picture is just like here:) Spring is comming soon, sun warms nicely and temperature is now -0 decrease (celsius) last night was -22 :O I love this barnstyle in your coop!!

Thanks Tim Light brahmas are fearly common here, then we have silver brahma, wich is lighter version of these "partridge" ones. It's nice to learn about these colours, we seem to be light years behind from you! It's allmost imbossiple to get new breeds and colours here :( Importing eggs is...

I'm so jealous now Everyone have so beautiful coops and pens! I don't know if coop is the right word for ours henhouse, we have long, cold winters so it has to be considered in building. We builded brand new chickenhouse in summer 2012. It has about 40 square meters of space, I'm not sure...

HI! I'm posting from Finland and I'm not sure wich colour my brahma's are, here these are called golden-brahma :) chicks one week old these hens are 10 months And here's the rooster

Oh how beatiful orpington pics here is. Orpington has stolen my heart and I took orpingtons because they are so good at incubating and caring for chikcs. Here are my orpingtons :) And here's chicks that hatched 4. march

Thanks everyone :) All our breeds are thick feathered. Inside henhouse we keep temperature around +10 degreese in winter time. I haven't quite figured out can I set a photogallery for my birds in to the Gallery section? Now I'm going to get information wich breeds roam the world and us Finns...

Hi! I am a 30 year old female and I have had chickens for 3 years now. Me and my husband are both gone grazy over our chickens. At first i have to apologize for my typing and errors with my english :) i haven't had to speake or write in a long time, and I have had quite good numbers in...