Recent content by feliciadawn

It works great. Very interesting, great explanations. Will there be a podcasting show in your future?

Me too. I found the Legbars didn't work out very well in my environment. The Ameracuanas and Marans were more rugged. Please save a few black Ameraucanas. They are such wonderful birds. Editing to say: I think you just need to advertise them more/better. People look for Legbars because...

Oh no! Ameraunas are the best for me. Will you still have silkied ones in the future?

So far, so good with having 2 silkie mommies raise my mail-order chicks. Now my cochin is broody but she is too late to join the party.

All 6 chicks are now under their surrogate silkie mothers. So far, so good.

So nervous -- getting chicks in the mail today. I really hate the whole mail thing, and would rather get them from Dennis, but in this case I had a $100 refund on a defective coop door from My Pet Chicken and there was nothing else I wanted from them, so I got chicks. At the last minute my...

Yeah I was going to say it sounds like a desparate mangy fox. I had a mangy fox attack when I first got chickens, and that fox did not run away until I was right up near it. I got rid of it by installing electric around the coop.

Yeah that is what this is -- about a 1000 square foot very wooded area, but the leaves aren't on the trees yet so there is some visibility. I have lost one young pullet to a hawk a few years ago, and had my smallest bantam disappear a few months ago during the day.

Yesterday while I was out in the garden about 50 feet from the chicken area, a full sized hawk swooped into the pen, I heard a hen screech and then saw the hawk fluttering away, (You can't see into the pen from where I was owing to a hills and trees.) No hens were hurt, and all are accounted...

I took in my friendliest hen, who lived inside with me for a while when she went through a sick period after losing her husband/brother. Some of the others would not adjust well to being in the house. I think I will need to bring the dog to the hens rather than the reverse.

Thanks for the replies. I like the clicker idea particularly, as I haven't tried that. I did try bringing a hen inside... see picture. After many hours Mirza settled and even took a nap, belly up near the hen. However, the next day she still showed the fear of chickens while outside. It is...

I choses the breed of my new puppy particularly as one from a breed that is known to get along with livestock, as herders. She is just over 9 months old. My pup's mom herds a flock of chickens every night. When I first got the puppy, she loved going into the chicken area and eating chicken...

I loved my Spitzhaubens but they started out sickly, I nursed them back to health, and then they died anyway. Only lasted 2 months or so. I think the ones I got were too fragile for my setup. I am getting some Mottled Houdans in a few weeks as I do love a crested bird.

I'm near Philly (3 blocks from the border on the West side.). Welcome.

Trying to get my herding pumi puppy to get over her fear of hens. She was great with them until she got a shock on the fence, and since than she has been terrified of chickens. Any advice?