Recent content by Kadydid

Sadly, the dismal California drought seems to have killed my sun chokes, and just when my chicas could really use them:P

Thanks for your advice. We've done our best to keep these little ones safe from at least 3 neighborhood hawks (red shoulder, red tail, & kestrel) and a family of crows, that it would be awful for them to be "done in" by their own species.

We found one of our older ladies (a barred rock, maybe) lame next to the water trough one evening. We guess that somehow she was injured by the sheep. The break or dislocation was up by her thigh. At any rate, even though my husband thought we should "cull" her, I just kept her in a separate...

I have two "fighting chicken" hens who hatched eggs about one week apart. One family was in a tiny pen, so we put both families together in a large, safe area. But the ladies did NOT get along. After separating them again, one of the moms kept trying to escape and rejoin the flock. She kept...

Someone gave me a setting hen (eggs and all). She is long legged, very black (iridescent green in the sun), and has black legs/feet. She also had a sort of bald spot or bulge on her chest (?). Is there something wrong with her or is that the characteristic of a particular breed? I have a hunch...