Recent content by StoneEchoChick

Thanks Frog..person, For the last month I couldnt wait to get rid of them, now Im going to be waiting for one go figure.

No and I wish I had. I'll keep the camera in the kitchen to catch one. Although I have no clue how to include a picture in a post... For the last month, because I wasnt sure why this was happening, we have been wasting the eggs and keeping track of the ratio of how many yellow to green yolks...

I was too "chicken" to try to eat the eggs that way though the vet said off colored eggs are often sold as B grade eggs to large food manufacturers. Our customer indicated her father ate one and didnt notice any difference in flavor. (brave soul!)

Anyone ever have experience with this? My "Easter Egg" chickens have been laying green in and green out eggs for the last month now. It begain right after selling to our first "customer" . I cracked an egg and to my suprise... an army green egg slipped out. My first reaction was to say eww...

This morning when I opened the door to my chicken coop... and there he stood. The biggest, meanest, and nastiest red fox with my favorite big, puffy, bunny slippers in his mouth! I ran for my sling shot! And beaned him right in the kisser. He yelped and barked as I reloaded one more bean. Then...

Orlando Bloom

Oh crud lemme try that again... This morning when I opened the door to my chicken coop... and there he stood. The biggest, meanest, and nastiest red fox with my favorite big, puffy, bunny slippers in his mouth! I ran for my sling shot! And beaned him right in the kisser. He yelped and barked...

preditors to bother

Hello Shady, What type of building are they in? Could something be getting inside through the floor, roof or walls of the building? Our first year of chickening...(if chickening is not a word it should be ) we started with 12 and dwindled no matter what we tried, down to 1. Fox, bobcat...

Heres a silly question...Timothy hay and grass the same thing?

Lucy Lieu

Maybe Ill put mostly hay with shredded paper on top. ... Still would like them to learn to sleep on the roosts not in the boxes

Thanks egh, Boy your coop is clean. My 24 birds make a heck of a mess... Maybe I will just change the bedding everyday...

I was thinking a square of plywood with a support to stand on the back (kind of like a picture frame). I am hoping that this would be a temporary routine, only until they learn to sleep on the roosts. What do you think?

This morning when I opened the door to my chicken coop... and there he stood. The biggest, meanest, and nastiest red fox with my favorite big, puffy, bunny slippers in his mouth! I ran for my sling shot! And beaned him right in the kisser. He yelped and barked as I reloaded one more bean. Then...