Recent content by SEaton611

he has! Admittedly I couldn’t figure out how to delete a post.

I vote girl! She has a few very round tail feathers and, at this point, I’d expect more iridescent green in the coloring. I have quite a few australorp roos in varying stages of their life, so I think I’m pretty good at IDing them now. Here’s my big boy Kylo Ren!

Hi everyone, I’ve recently taken in a young hen with a leg injury to help rehab her, but the normal stuff doesn’t seem to be working. At this point I’ve had her a week, and she was injured by a dog a week before that. She holds her leg close to her body and is super quick at hopping. She’s...

Hi everyone, I am looking to rehome one of my roosters, as I can't bring myself to process him for meat after having named and bonded with him. He is an Easter Egger, about a year old, and is the beta of my two roosters. All the hens like my other, bigger boy better, so this guy has sacrificed...

I hatched several babies with a broody hen back in May, and I have had a hell of a time sexing them. I’m starting to think Poppy, the black chicken in the first picture, middle chicken in the second, is a cockerel based on how pointy the feathers are near her saddle. They aren’t as thin and long...

After I shifted the box to be front facing instead of open on the top, she almost immediately took her babies out and showed them food and water, now she's sitting on the remaining clutch again and the babies are using her as a climbing gym. We did do a staggered hatch (mostly because her...

Hey, Thanks for the suggestion. I did have the opening at the top, and it seemed that Mama was having a tough time encouraging her chicks to make the hop so I switched it. Now to just wrap the crate a bit tighter because of the chill but should be okay!

They hatched yesterday, but there's still a few eggs I expect to hatch tomorrow-ish. Mama did get up a bit earlier to have a snack, and seemed to be showing the babies how to hop up to the edge of the box and then down, but they didn't follow. If we get to the 48hr mark, do you think I should...

My first time broody, a brown leghorn, decided to hatch her eggs inside a wooden box and now we have some chicks. Will she take them under her wing to get out of the box to food and water? I was able to move the box to a large dog crate so the rest of the flock can't bother her, but I'm a bit...

When my mom had a rooster she didn't want, we actually contacted some local farms to see if they'd take him. Not sure if that would be an option, but depending on the bird, some may want him for breeding...others might raise him for meat. It might be worth asking around!

Thank you! Also, YAY Fellow Mainer!!! I usually wear an old pair of LL Bean muck boots in the coop. These ones I wear to work because they're pretty nice, but I've been in such a rush lately that I just run out in work clothes to let the flock into the bigger enclosure before I leave. I figured...

In my defense, it's usually right when I come back from work so I can let them out. I'm not sloshing around in there. I'm not *that* dull.

LOL I would if they weren't...expensive. I could buy him a $40 knockoff brand and see if it's the same, but I think maybe he's like "That $400 could have been spent on mealy worms"

Really I think he's trying to tell me not to wear my good boots into the run! He doesn't quite have a good grasp on persuasion yet. :D

It's just this one pair of boots, which I don't typically wear in the yard anyway unless I'm rushing out before work to let the flock into their bigger run. Normally I wear brown LL Bean boots, which he doesn't care about at all. He is otherwise fantastic with me and my other chickens, where...