Recent content by GinaNew York

you can try if you want to drive the Agway in Danbury on Mill Plain road - call first - they're still getting in chicks and had about 50 easter eggers recently

Thank you. I'll do the smallest I can.

This is Gracie, a six week old Easter egger. Her beak doesn't close. It's not crooked at all. Would you file the beak on the bottom and trim the top with clippers?

does anyone know a dominique breeder in CT or NY?

go to Agway in danbury on Mill Plain road - they have sexed hens - right now buff brahmas that are several weeks old - you can call to see what they're getting in each week don't go to tractor supply unless you want a straight run

thank you - I'm going to give all of this a shot

this is really helpful - now I never thought about yellow jackets - I suppose the fly paper would smell like the trap does right? I've never used this before so I'd rather learn from your experiences than have to do it myself!

being our first spring and summer with the chickens in the coop, I'm panicking and want to be prepared -

do you use the deep litter method?

now that warm weather is in the future here in the northeast in CT, I'm wondering what everyone is doing to control/prevent flies - does anyone use the nematodes that are used in horse barns in the coop? We're using the deep litter method, so poisons to kill flies, would destroy the good...

if you read the book, Woods is saying to close the windows with the snow and I think it was open from April forward - climates and humidity are so different and with this changing of the weather even harder to make generalizations, it's a day by day thing - our one girl with the comb that is so...

[E="bruceha2000, post: 19485888, member: 136929"]This part confused me. No vents means the windows in the front of your coop are closed?? It would make sense that if the front is open there wouldn't be a draft on the birds on the roosts in the back even with a ridge vent, assuming there is no...

open to the front and air tight elsewhere is NOT what the woods book says at all - his book and designs represented learning curves and modifications he made and noted over the years what is interesting in the woods book, which I've read and reread from cover to cover is that he says several...

I didnt miss the point, we incorporated as many points as we could and kept the windows and roost design. Woods coops had several designs in the book. The many windows are opened most of the time but adjusted during the day with weather. With acurite we watch outside and inside temps 24/7...