Recent content by jasmine5904

I'm wondering if my pup is a Catahoula mix. He's probably about 4 months old (just lost his puppy teeth), and my husband found him as a stray. I assumed he was an Aussie mix because of the coloring, but he has short hair and a long tail. I just recently discovered Catahoulas, and I'm wondering...

It will definitely freeze, but that's the only con I've come across so far! My dog doesn't pay much attention to it (but he is inside most of the time). I do put cayenne pepper in mine (either mixed in or sprinkled on top) because I don't want the squirrels to get any bright ideas. I wonder if...

Yes! I thought they were perfect names for four BOs. :)

I just had to share this - my puppy decided to join the girls in their leaf pile this morning. (And Sophia looks like she's about to peck him in the butt!)

I have four 34-week-old orpingtons, and I'm still waiting for one of them to start laying! (And another one has only been laying for a week or so.) So give them time - from what I've heard, it takes longer for them to start laying when the days are shorter, anyway.

Thanks, Mrs K! She's been inside for about a week - she was in pretty rough shape when I brought her in. She was wet, standing around by herself, and not eating much. She's doing a lot better now, and I've treated the rest of my girls for lice as well. As far as reintroduction goes, it was...

Ok, chicken experts, I need your advice! I recently acquired two new hens, and I had to bring one inside to treat her for a severe lice infestation (she's a crossbeak, so she wasn't grooming herself like the others - I discovered the lice when I brought her in to give her a bath). Now that she's...

katatonic123, are you in Missouri? Because that sounds exactly like our forecast/weather recently! We went from the upper 60s to the lower 30s in a matter of a couple hours the other day, and close to single digit wind chills tonight. Our first snow of the season is coming this weekend, and I'm...

One of my girls finally squatted!! :) 24 weeks and counting... It can't be long now, right??

Same here! 22 weeks, and two of my girls have looked like they're ready for a couple weeks now. They think they're little princesses. "You'll get eggs when I'm good and ready!"

I just feed my fermented feed once in the morning, and they eat it a little bit at a time throughout the day. But then again, they also have free range of my backyard, so they don't eat a whole lot of the FF anyway. I don't have a set schedule at work, so it would be hard for me to feed twice a...

Congrats to everyone on their first eggs! My BOs are 21 weeks, so I'm joining the countdown. I'm thinking this girl will be the first to lay. Two look like her, and my other three look more like this:

I would love it if my FF smelled like cake batter! Lol My husband says ours smells like nail polish.

This makes a lot of sense... I grew up in the country and used to run around in the woods all the time when I was little . I never paid a bit of attention to poison ivy, and never had a reaction to it. I moved to the "city" to go to college, and about four years later, got my first case of...

Not very. :) Only about 10 weeks old.