Recent content by Dana

The hens now have a wonderful home with Wendy :).

sumterflfreed I sent you a pm

I won't ship them. I'm looking for someone in Florida to immediately give them to after I catch them.

I haven't posted here in a long time, due to having to re-home my own chickens a few years ago. I'm still not able to keep chickens, but it has come to my attention that there are two hens abandoned at a foreclosed home in Eustis, FL. Apparently there was also a rooster, but it seems that he...

Thank you so much for the picture and update Sharon, it's nice knowing what a great home and wonderful caretaker the hens have. Tell your mom that I appreciate how good she is to them, and that I'm glad she enjoys having them. Dana

Wow, it looks great! Your property is beautiful, and I think they're going to love it there. I feel so lucky to have found someone as generous as you and your mom; you've taken a lot of the worry and stress out of rehoming my hens, thank you!

Yes, I'm looking for someone who will take all four of them.

Sharon, I sent you a PM.

I'm going to be moving from New Hampshire to Florida in about a month or so. I won't be able to keep my flock of four pet hens where I'm moving to, so I would like to find them a loving home. The reason I'm not rehoming them in my area is because two of the hens are originally from Florida...

What do you mean by "pecking themselves"? Are they pulling feathers out? They might just be preening, which is normal behavior and would make sense if a lot of new feathers are growing. When they preen, they're using their beak to remove the casing that covers feathers when they first grow...

A vitamin D supplement I have came with the same kind of instructions. Instead of trying to figure out how much of the straight supplement to add (which would be very small and hard to measure), I made a solution according to the instructions and added the correct amount of that to each gallon...

I also recommend using an electric collar. My family recently adopted a five year old sheltie, and when we got her she was a squirrel chaser, and would lunge and bark at the chickens through their fence whenever she saw them. This was last winter, so I wasn't letting the chickens out to free...

Thanks! It was nice looking at all the handsome roosters in this contest.

My white leghorn rooster, Finrod.

My chickens like to eat pine needles in the winter, so I'd also like to know if they're good or bad.