Recent content by maria09

Thanks for your replies... I can remember as a child my mother cooked a chicken and there were quite a few eggs inside the chicken, some bigger than other..only the yolk.

Do Many Eggs Form Inside The Chicken And Then Come Out One By One. And Then Take A While To Form Again And Come Out Again, Or Does One Egg Form And Come Out And Then One Egg Form Inside The Chicken And Come Out?

Seeing that you grow fruittrees, I would like some advice on my fig tree. How can i keep the birds from eating the figs before they are even bigger than a grape?

Your coop is beautifull and looks so snug. O how I envy you. I have been thinking my brains out how to build a coop for my 11 chickens. They sleep in a tree. My husband recons that it would be difficult to to change them to sleep in a coop. We have 2 roosters as well. Luckily we don't have...

:yaYes I would say she's broody. Normally it takes 21 days for the eggs to hatch and I find that if the eggs are taken away they sit there for much longer. To me it feels like 2 months. There is nothing more exciting than gett:yaing babies!

Thank you:)

Thank you very much for your feedback. I actually buy what they call "mixed fowl" it has crushed maize, corn as well as sunflower seeds. I also put a little apple cider vinager in their water. Fortunately my chickens are very healthy so far. Well I hope so, it looks like it anyway. If they do...

Can you please tell me what is scratch. I give my chickens left over food such as rice, bread, spaghetti, eggs. Can it be harmfull to them?

How Can I Use Chickens For Pest Control. Do They Eat Termites?

I also talk to my chickens and spend a lot of time with them. I also think I am a little crazy.I just don't know how you people get to touch them because they wont let me. They are very wild. They stay in a large area in our backyard..about 300square meters. I give them all the left-over rice...

I also talk to my chickens and spend a lot of time with them. I also think I am a little crazy.I just don't know how you people get to touch them because they wont let me. They are very wild. They stay in a large area in our backyard..about 300square meters. I give them all the left-over rice...

We have 9 hens and 2 roosters. I have noticed that there are always 6 hens that are with the roos and the other are "brooding" allthough not really brooding because the eggs are taken away everyday. The photo is of our hen named Eagle (Arend in Afrikaans) that I just could not find one day. I...

At last my small egg picture:

Yes I have a problem loading pics, but I think I am just ignorant. I know I click on img tag ...and then I don't know anymore:idunno

Wow.. that sounds like a busy family.