Recent content by kathychick

Back with chickens

Thank you all for your posts. We downsized to an apt after selling our large house (we are empty nesters all around now). Seems our girls are what we miss the most! Looking for a new, but smaller, house and finding restrictions a bit disappointing. The suburb of Montgomery (outside of...

Hoping the mindset had improved from when the earlier posts were added - I went into the office and was very nastily told that only 5 acres or more could have chickens in Miami Township. Not wanting to be snarky (okay I did after talking to them) - I told them Hyde Park and Montgomery allow...

Minihorse - they are gentle ladies and would be proud to help someone fit all the pieces of the puzzle together. I'm not sure if there is a private message feature here on BYC. but I will provide my work # here. 513-900-4145 basic voicemail will kick in if I am not at my desk.

RehIme should have been rehome Darn predictive text.

Hello all Cincinnati area chick lovers. I need to rehime my 5 ladies ASAP. Be careful what you ask for - great offer to buy on our house with closing in 15 days! I have 13 mos old great layers. 1-Buckeye (Betty) 1-Comet (BB) 2-Barred Rock (Amelia and Christie) 1 Black Australorp All are...

We lost our first girls to predators. Two of the nice quiet ones. I never knew I would take it this hard. They certainly do have a way of getting into your heart. Sigh.

I am in NE 71 and 275 but I still go to Northside Grange to get my feed! Whereabouts are you?

EXCELLENT! We were just talking about trying to work something into having the chickens out but safe from hawks. By using the EMT (great cost) we can put them over the rased beds when they aren't on the ground in the same tractor. Thank you for sharing such a great idea. My husband has already...

Hello from another Cincinnati chicken-ER!

Okay. It has been months and I've been dutifully picking up the one egg which keeps getting laid on the floor when last night I went out to close up the girls as usual and checked in the nesting box and THERE SHE WAS! Sitting on her egg in the nest box - not on the floor! She looked at me as...

LOVE nipple waterers. We also put them on the bottom of a bicycle water bottle in the brooder. Top came off easily for checking level and topping off. They also came with their own holder which we screwed through the side of the brooder (instead of the bike) and could easily lift the bottle in...

She didn't start laying until this week and that is when this behavior started. So perhaps it is that. I do not have a rooster (in my next life with more land and money) but the laying and sounding the alarm started the same week. My husband liked your answer and said "those darn hormones in...

Our first layer is Amelia who is our Dominique ( meal maker from Meyer)

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