Recent content by erock

I had a big cochin roo and I really like the boy, but finally he was attacking everything in sight, me, my kids ect. I tried to work with him a little bit, but he just wanted to fight. Finally had to cull him. Sad day but I am not looking over my shoulder in the yard.

15 Olive Eggers lock down today, hopefully they are all fluffy for friday, get a good start for football playoffs, yes, they are rooting and chirping for the Bears....

Totally, not true. They will sit on the top of a small run and drop down, eat your chicken, fly away and come back next week. They are very wrong, sorry.

I have only used shavings, I don't think that straw or hay works as well, but I am not sure because I have not tried it.

I researched on BYC this method and it has worked great for me. It is pretty simple in that I first put down a nice base of bedding, at first I was using Cedar shavings until I read that wasn't the healthiest bedding material so I switched over to pine shavings. Usually, I check things once...

Quote: they are doing well, I have teenagers that just started laying in the first coup they roost about 8 ft. up at night. The other coup are about 4 months old and they don't roost too much so they huddle together on the ground, all seems well so far and we have had some 0 degree weather.

I would agree, I intervened once and I feel that it was part of the reason the little one passed. Mother Nature knows what she is doing even if little chickee is not necessarily with the program yet. It is hard, but encourage you to hang in there and let it be...

My thought would be a hawk, sorry for you...

Nice catch, hope you got them all.

I went to check on the birds last night and walked into one coupe and there was Mr. Skunk eating out of the chicken food. Chickens were all roosting at the time but didn't seemed to bothered by the intruder. I am under the impression that they are like raccoons as a predator. He didn't seem...

Nekhebet, those some good looking birds, look very healthy, nice hatch...

I agree, it is hard to see them working so hard and we are so near the end. I helped one out, and it's legs were jacked up and so I said I will never get involved again. We will see. So far on this hatch we have 8 little fuzzies and still have 6 in the incubator. We will see. Hang tough...

Okay I am in, have 15 Ameraucana in, due the 13th, which is just around the corner. Can't wait...

Thanks for the help

I left friday with 15 eggs in the incubator, they are due next week on the 13th. I came home today, Sunday morning, walked in the room and it stank like a smell I have not smelled before, but it was bad. I have heard about people having eggs explode in their incubators due to a bacteria so I...