Recent content by maggielulu

i have 2 nantucket hens and 1 tom. my hens are 2 years old and the tom is a year and a half. So ALL fully grown ok.. my hens strut and tail feathers fan out like the tom and trys to gobble and acts just like my tom then will go lay a egg, but now have not lay eggs for over 4 months that i know...

i bought my 6 blondes from a guy outside of town last summer. he had 50 hens. i wish i had room to save them all. these i got where all molting. anyway. one has a bad hip we call her gimp. she gets around great. the problem is most of there beaks grow extremely long to where they have a hard...

i have a Stanley heater in my coop. coop is somewhat insulated. it has carpet on three walls. its all i had. stays 40 degrees f in there. chickens come out when temps are above freezing. i have 10 layers and am getting 7 to 9 eggs a day. going on my second year raising chickens:)

2/23/2013 8:09pm

thank you all for the warn welcome. i have typed more but for some reason this thing keeps erasing it lol

hi ya'll my name is Teri. i have 10 hens, 1 rooster and 2 turkeys. 8 cats 2 dogs.. my girls are egg layers. i am hoping to try fryers this year if i can get up the courage to process them myself.