Recent content by helaineking

Well, one month later, and almost all of the chickens have learned how to manage the gate. I moved the feed as far away as possible from the opening (thanks Wise Woman for this idea) and otherwise, just let them figure it out themselves. Some of them will go through the hole in the gate. The...

Thanks! That's what I think, too. I guess I just didn't handle them correctly when they were young, and so now they are squirrely.

Thanks, Wise Woman! Very helpful pics! I'm glad I'm not the only one that is doing this. So far, the wire gate on the door to the house seems to be keeping the goats out. Unfortunately, it is also keeping the chickens out (or in, depending on what side of the gate they are on). I will have...

I suspect that they are not really chickens at all! They are some sort of mutt game bird. I may just eat them.:D

Here's what I did today. I put up a wire gate over the opening to the hen house, so the chickens can go in and out (in theory...we'll see if they really can) and the goats will not be able to get in (again, in theory...they have been trying but so far, have had no luck). Also added wooden...

Thanks so much! At first, I thought they were Brown Leghorns...which would make sense coming from Orscheln's. But then I didn't see the white earlobes, so I thought Welsummers, but their personalities didn't fit that at all. So then they got the yellow ears, and I didn't know what to make of...

They look yellow to me. Not really noticeable. In fact, for a while, I thought they must be brown because I couldn't see them. Then I spotted the yellow, just this last week.

Good idea! I've been thinking of making a gate with three bars across it that the chickens could squeeze through, but the goats couldn't manage.

I am raising 11 chickens (large fowl). I let them free range in the paddock almost all day. Around noon, I put them back in their hen house to eat grain, and then let them out in an hour or so. At night, they get locked up. My question is this. I also have 5 Nigerian Dwarf goats in the same...

I have two pullets that I bought on a whim at Orscheln's. They couldn't tell me there what breed they were, but the chicks looked like chipmunks. Now they look like this: They are 12 weeks old. They are very skittish, and no matter how hard I have worked with them, very hard to catch...

This is my first flock. Three Buff Orpingtons and three Black Australorps. About one week old.