I also am a grandma with a Chihuahua! I fix my dog homemade dog food: Liver, chicken, hamburger, turkey, etc, cooked with brown rice and carrots. I cut the meat up into bite-sized pieces, make gravy out of the broth and my dog loves it. I usually make a big batch and store it in the...
I am very new at this too so take my advice with a grain of salt but I put their food and water in the run. When they free-range around the yard, they always have access to the run and their food and water because I leave the door to the run open.
I lock 'em up in the coop at night. I have a...
McKenley5, that is a very cute picture!
What type of chicken is the tan and white one? I have one just like that and I think she's a golden comet? (I pretty much bought four random hopefully-female chicks from the feed store and I don't actually know what they all are.)
... or at least, running around the back yard.
My four chicks are about five weeks old and have been living outside in their coop full-time for about a week. Today I decided to let them loose in the yard for the first time, mostly to see how my Chihuahua Lilly would react. I didn't know if...
I put my chicks out overnight for the first time last week. I kept asking myself what could possibly go wrong? Was the coop strong enough to defeat the local raccoons, skunks, and cats? Maybe my babies will freeze to death! (Not likely!) I was up at the crack of dawn the next morning and...
I find that I am committed to both a baby shower and my granddaughter's birthday party that day and I really wish they were happening on a different day than Sept. 11. I don't know what I would do instead of attending these joyful events.... maybe sit on the couch and watch CNN, I don't...