Recent content by kellieetal

aha! ^^^^that's what I was wondering (if they necessarily would have skin exposure with molting or if they could just lose feathers but not show balding/thinning spots) The bottom of the coop has got "Lucille" feathers all over--like someone has lost a pillow fight. I'll still make a check for...

I've got an easter egger who was laying 3 of every 4 days, but hasn't now for about 3 days (just since this last system of rain has come through), and a marans who hasn't laid a darn thing for me since we got her a month ago. Now, I can't be sure exactly how old either is, but the guy I bought...

^^^^ lol I mean PEOPLE friends who love chickens.

HELLOOO Washington! :D I'm in Kitsap County and would love to find chicken friends. I've only got my our two girls so far. We started with a couple of started pullets who have just started laying--or supposedly. Alice, who we were told was an "Americauna" but don't they lay blue/bluish eggs...

I read on BYC (somewhere) a guy's good neat 'n tidy feeder made of, if I remember the size right, a 5" wide pvc pipe of whatever length he chose (guessing 5 feet?) with a fitting on the bottom end of it that is more or less a "y" shaped connector. The bottom of this Y connector was then capped...

oooh Mianna! That's a nice waterer! I was just wondering if I could use the cup waterers out the side of say a 3 or 5 gal bucket instead of out of the side of a 1" (?size) pvc pipe like I see usually done. But seeing your picture makes me fairly sure I can use several cups around the sides of...

Regardless of whether or not there is animal control, there ARE landlord/tenent laws which require a landlord to make his rental safe and reasonably habitable...and while he would not be able to control wild animals wandering onto and off of the property, he darn well CAN control his OWN animals...

#spellcheck! lol I meant "induce" not "indude." :D

If I have a rooster and hen pair, then whatever eggs she lays will have a good chance of having been fertilized, assuming the pair is on good terms with each other. But, just because she lays fertile eggs, doesn't mean she'll have any interest in hatching them, right? Wouldn't a nest full...

As much as I'd like to, I really don't have the time to read throug 509 posts to find an answer. I've searched the thread for "crowing sound," but all I've found so far is that they start to crow fairly young and that it sounds like a pitiful 13-year-old boy whose voice is changing. Well, is...

As much as I'd like to, I really don't have the time to read throug 509 posts to find an answer. I've searched the thread for "crowing sound," but all I've found so far is that they start to crow fairly young and that it sounds like a pitiful 13-year-old boy whose voice is changing. Well, is...

Well, we boiled some of each this morning, and again, daughter was the only one who could taste any difference. They were both good, though. She did point out that maybe we just happened to get reaaly good store eggs. We,re in the seattle area, and fresh, local stuff is very in demand here...

Grit is just that...like sandy tiny rocks you find in the dirt. They'll find it in the dirt, or you can put some in a pie tin for them. It's not the same stuff as "grits." Grits is a gound corn hot cereal similar to cream of wheat in texture. I haen't heard of anyone feeding either to their...

hmm...I'll try hard-boiled and poached next time. I know the health differences matter to me, but hubby would just as soon eat two pounds of steak and fries and an extra-large milkshake for dinner as a salad, or anything that in any way implies "healthy" for that matter.

hmm...I'll try hard-boiled and poached next time. I know the health differences matter to me, but hubby would just as soon eat two pounds of steak and fries and an extra-large milkshake for dinner as a salad, or anything that in any way implies "healthy" for that matter.