Recent content by orinator

He was a beautiful lavender ameraucana, btw, and he lived his best life right up until the end. For 2 years he owned 2 1/2 acres of bug-infested chicken heaven, eating spiders and having sex every day. But then he started punching large holes in anyone who walked by. I loved him but when you...

I had an unruly, violent roo that had to go, but I wanted to do it in a humane manner. I took a clear plastic storage container with a snap-on lid (15"w x 12"d x 12" high) and drilled one 1/4" hole near the bottom on one end and another near the top at the other end. I bought a box of whippets...

This spring I used our Petco dog crate as a brooder. It worked great! The large size is about $110. If you don't bother attaching the top and bottom together you can just lift the top up whenever you need to. Good view of chicks, good circulation, cat-proof, easy to clean. Plus, Made in...

We just set 17 eggs in an incubator today. I heard this theory when I was a kid in the 70s. My kids are going to be documenting the process thoroughly for their next science fair project. The hypothesis: Rounded eggs are an indication of female and longer, pointed eggs are an indication of...