Recent content by jldward

It hurts to have to lose Patch, his girlfriends & all my chickens, but not my choice. Have someone interested in the peas & it sounds like it may be right up their alley, if it comes to pass. Not sure where, but some neighborhood is made up of 5 acre lots (don't know how many) & there are 2...

This is Bumblefoot Grey over Sid Taylor black

Speaking from only our experience, the black greys my boyfriend has made have all been great. I believe he crossed Grey over black, though, & of course it all depends on each person's stock. Just the other day I saw a black grey chick (about bantam size-i don't know the age) pen-sparring with...

The reason I felt my grid may be "suspect" is it was cardboard. Earlier today I had the same thought you mentioned...if I feel the need to divide in the future, I'll use 1/2" hardware cloth. That seemed to me like it shouldn't influence air flow or temp, or humidity. I said this would...

I agree for the most part. That's one of the biggest perks to games as far as we're concerned...our term is "survivability", although we did get hit kinda hard last year by a fox that was getting youngsters that ventured outside our perimeter fence. Fox & owls.

Try having a conversation outside with about 20 crowing roosters around you. Don't get me wrong, I love listening to them, but talk about surround sound.

So, it's been so nice not worrying about being attacked by roosters (got rid of the two that did) & I just bragged the other day about my two Lav Orp roos getting along in the same pen. I go in this morning to feed & the smaller of the Lav roos wants to come at me. I firmly (not hard) used my...

(Most of) My Ideal bunch 6 weeks in

I agree to gather & consider various information & formulating one's own "secret formula" to successful hatching. Your idea about the stones is neat, but for my two hatching experiences, my incubator actually holds temp pretty well, but my humidity has been the issue--holding pretty steady with...

Well, going in I knew what lockdown meant, but inadvertently created extenuating circumstances. My boyfriend has games but works away a lot & I don't know the different breeds well enough to just leave all eggs in a wide open 'bator, so I divised a grid divider. I was concerned it might...

@TJordan, I do not disagree. In December & January he was home almost every weekend, but in all fairness, our December was pretty wet/rainy, so that also worked against him. I don't deny he had chances, but honestly not a whole lot, plus we both have elderly moms living alone & he has an elderly...

Ooh stupid phone.....should be "not in the LINE of daily traffic"! I truly do type out what I mean to say & do proofread, but sometimes this stupid phone will go back & change stuff.

The problem here is partially procrastination, but mostly time. His being busy working is a good thing ($), but when he may only get a day or two off, part of that is relaxing & part may go to other priorities. My thing has always been, take a little of time off & apply toward "need to do's" &...

Oh yeah, forgot to mention because of his work, he hasn't been able to finish my layer pens (again, he got me into this lol) & I've got a slew of babies coming up that will need pens before you know it. I'm able to do some basic repairs/construction, plumbing, electrical when I need to, but...

I hear ya lol. Used to, all the chickens I had to take care of were my boyfriend's games--I started getting into layers about a year ago (@ his suggestion, mind you)--now I take care of OUR chickens, along with two horses, 4 peafowl, some free-range ducks, way too many dogs/puppies & the house...