Recent content by KatieBugg

Wow he is handsome!! He has beautiful color and very nice body shape.

I have 3 girls all with green legs, 1 lays almost a robin blue, one lays an aqua and one lays a light olive green... EE's are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get

I have an acre pond and the chickens really enjoy tadpole & frog season, they will stand in the shallows when it's hot. I do free range everyday, all day.

OMG! so cute!! I love seeing broodys with their babies.

I used to come your way quite a bit on the motorcycle before I sold it, very pretty through there :) What kind of chicks did you get?

Glad to see another from central MO here!! What kind of chicks are you planning to get

I have my fingers crossed for more babies to hatch...can't wait to see a pic of mom and babies!

Congrats on the babies!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody birds are absolutely beautiful!! After about 25 years of chicken keeping off and on and lots of different breeds, I have come to love the EE above all others. I have 19 2 week old EE's that I am currently raising, 3 roos and the rest pullets, I also have 3-3 year old girls. THe...

I think you need to look at Cackle's site again, they allow for as small as 3 per order, here is the link to the page: http://www.cacklehatchery.com/page10.html#citytown

What kind of sickness are you getting hit with repeatedly?

Cackle Hatchery has a 15 chick minimum, but they also have City/Town specials where you can get as few as 5 birds. They put in a heat pack this time of year and yes the heat packs are safe :)

You might boil an egg and mash up the egg yolk and add a little liquid and try feed that to the weak chicks.

Chicks when they are tired kind of wilt like a flower lol Chicks can and will sleep standing up with their little wings touching the floor and their head down. After the chicks get to 4-5 days old they don't do this as much.

That is about the same amount of snow we have and add that on top of what we already had from Thursday, it sucks. I scooped out an area for the girls to scratch around this morning and each shovel full was stupid heavy compared to the last snow. Back side of the storm is still due to go...