Recent content by mdquilts

Thank you so much! I saw all sorts of advice and was getting frustrated 🙂

Hi, just got home with our new chicks and someone pooped this lovely thing out. Assuming it’s some kind of worm but I have never had to treat for that before. I can’t find anything about how to treat chicks that are just a few days old and want to be sure to get this right They are in quarantine...

My final entry, I love succulent plants!

Fischer cat, they are horrid

Thank you all for your compliments. Our family loves carving pumpkins 🙂

And one using my grandson’s hands

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Glad someone asked this. One egg today was barely brown at all!

Live crickets are a lot of fun for them to catch

Happy Halloween from my chicken pumpkin!

Behold the power of sweet little chickens! My husband was was totally against chickens when our son brought home 6 chicks in the spring. He decided if we “had to” keep them we would do it right and he built them a palace. Fast forward 7 months and guess who’s out there with treats every...

I have 6 of the same breed so we used the colored spiral bands to tell them apart when they were younger. When they got tight it was such a pain to change them I switched to zip ties. I should have just used them in the first place they are so much easier and so many different colors.

Don’t even think about using an umbrella near them. Trust me.

Feel free to PM me. I have pictures of it being built too

Try googling “bugs on chickens” and filter by images. Try a few different wordings and I’m sure you’ll find something. Yes that’s our coop and run we designed and built ourselves. Here are a couple of pictures I think if you click on them it’s larger