Recent content by foursons13

The best advice I can give is listen to others who have done it before you. They have tried and succeeded and tried and failed. Take what you can apply to your situation and set up and run with it. Not everything that works for other people will work for you so just keep trying. You will...

Awesome info. I have been looking into buying more but would love to raise my own. I didnt think she would start laying until spring! Its a bonus. She's laying eggs!!

Thanks so much for the information.

I have read somewhere that you shouldn't incubate pullet chicken eggs, is it the same for the first eggs a turkey lays? We are planning on hatching some chocolate turkeys from our pair but I want them to be healthy.

Chickens love the leaves of rhubarb. Not so much the stalks. It wont hurt them at all to eat it. They will strip your leaves and then it will probably die off. If you want it for yourself you should move it. Otherwise they chickens will think it is for their dinning pleasure! Edited to...

Our FBCM. I think he is a little big for his britches!

I really thought that I would have to look hard for them if they layed them in the yard. They actually stand out like a sore thumb on the ground. Our run has sticks and rocks and leaves in it, but when there's a stray egg layed out there it was like it was screaming at me, "LOOK AN EGG!" First...

Its getting down to the 30's at night here and all 23 of my chicken still sleep on the outdoor roosts. If it were me I would go in but then again I'm not a chicken.

Here's mine. Free chick with my McMurray order. LF Buff Cochin, I am pretty sure cockeral. Very easygoing has never crowed. For some reason this one always sleeps on the ground under the outdoor roost.

How do you give oyster shell? In a feeder? In a bowl in the coop? Mixed in with food? Thanks

Dito on the Stubbornness! Make sure you have lots of time for training. They are incredibly smart but require a lot of time to get them trained. Once that is accomplished you will have a great family dog.

Its LF not Bantam. Also it came from McMurray. It was my free exotic chick. It really just started developing in recent weeks. It was just like the other girls then all of a sudden it started looking cockeral like! I guess my best hope is to wait and see if it lays and egg! or sits on a...

I'm So Confused!!

Chickie'sMoma : got any closer clean looking pics of the neck area? sometimes i find it hard to tell on cochins unless i get a clear pic of the neck and buffs are hard to see. also, if you look at the feet, do you see any bright pink like your BCM has on his? this is a sign that if it is a male...

Quote: She's/He's 16 weeks.