Recent content by crowinncluckn

I personally like the close up photos, but it depends on what you are trying to capture. I really like your picture of the hen in the crate.

John Boy is very handsome

This pullet did not come home to roost one evening and I thought she had been taken by a predator. About two weeks later I was weeding a flower bed and found her sitting on a nest in a clump of ferns. I decided to leave her be as she had survived this far on her on and was pretty well hidden...

I crossed the rooster in my avatar which I was told is a gamebird of some sort with an easter egger. ( Actually I had a hen go broody so I just stuck a handful of eggs that were layed that day under her which included two green EE eggs.) The EE/X pullets are not very big and lay very small...

Post some pictures of #2 as it gets older. I am curious to see if it is a girl or boy.

I would change the design of my coop for easier access for cleaning and caring for the chickens and I would make it bigger because I now know about chicken math. I would let my broody hatch and raise all future members of my flock. Other than that I am pretty happy with my chicken experience...

Quote: X2 Very Pretty!

Quote: Other than moving the broody in the very beginning your hatch sounds much like mine. My broody was a Buff Orpington and she was in a coop and run with plenty of food, water and room and was left to her own devices. Other than checking her to make sure she was healthy I did not bother...

Quote: That is why I moved my broody to a seperate nest box. The others kept trying to get in the nest box with the broody and I ended up with broken eggs and eggs that I wasn't sure how long some of them had been left uncovered.

I am sure number three is a boy and one and four look like girls. I think two might be a girl too, but they are pretty young yet.

Quote: When and how do you introduce your babies to the older chickens?

This is my first time with a broody and it turned out to be a very disappointing experience. I have an EE and a BO who go broody at the drop of a hat. I never let them sit on eggs before because I didn't have a rooster. We finally got a rooster and got him up to speed, so I thought why not let...

Quote: The lake in back of my husband's office is a natural nesting place for ducks of all kinds and therefore predators of all kinds. He tells me daily of seeing baby ducks carted off by Osprey, Eagles, Ravens, Blue Herons and Hawks. Some ducks have as many as 14 babies hatch out and end up...