Recent content by Melleding

The usual crowd today in the yard. Bluejays, the cardinals brought their only baby this year, a female, doves, blackbirds, a young woodpecker, brown thrasher, mockingbirds, a catbird and a hummingbird. Don't know what kind it is though. Six young egrets in my neighbor's yard. The painted...

I love them too! We had one stop here one year. He was walking around the path in the back like he was sightseeing. Only have seen two of them here in 30 years, just passing through.

I initially tried different types of feed and nothing else for a day or two. She wouldn't touch the pellets. I found one organic brand that she would eat, but can't get it now. It was 16% protein. I just ordered some crumbles and will try making mash with it. Actually the grandkids do eat...

What would be a good type to try? I have tried so many brands! I will try making mash with it, which might help. She was going through her first molt, stopped eating and that's why I took her to the vet. So I think our vet said that to try and get her to eat something. But she is picky, spoiled...

Chopped cucumbers, crushed eggshells and crumbled seedballs. The vet recommended the seedballs. I have tried 6 different brands of chicken feed so far. She does eat some scratch and the other food. But the chicken feed just sat there untouched. I just kept dumping it and putting fresh feed down...

Yes, she eats all of that twice a day, plus has scratch, seed and dried mealworms available all the time. Sometimes I add rice or plain chopped spaghetti to it. She eats bugs daily and I buy live mealworms sometimes. She lays an egg every day though. The vet said to give her whatever she wants...

Just finished making Chicken's dinner.

So sorry for your loss. We installed a solar fan in the coop last year and it seems to help when it's 100°. This year I bought a floor fan and also had a box fan, and got a new shadecloth that seems to keep it cooler in there. I put ice in the waterers in the afternoon. My coop is a converted...

So sorry you lost her.

Day two...

Thank you! I trimmed her crest after she finished molting, so she can see now. She flys up on the shelf when I'm sitting out there, so she is eye to eye with me, and sits there and chats. But I took a mirror out there and when she saw herself she freaked! Flew to the top of her coop, about 8 ft...

Here's her face

She's Polish. I thought she was an osprey initially (they look like eagles) when I found her. She doesn't know she is a chicken though.

"Hmm...This isn't as difficult as I thought it would be." (learning to play The Chicken Song)