Recent content by triplej

Joe the Barn Owl is truly stunning!!! I love the photos of him taking a bath. We get owls around my house, I hear them but I never see them.

I can't answer your question but I wanted to say how beautiful your rooster is!!! I'm new to owning chickens, sorry I couldn't be of any help. I just didn't want to read and run!!!

It is in my hen house anyway!!! LOL My roo is bashful though. He seems most randy after the afternoon feed BUT that is also when I have time to sit and visit with my ladies and their gentleman. He waits until I have turned to look at something, anything, out of sight of him before he mates...

Thanks for posting this!!! I've had my flock less than a week and the chicken math is already getting me!!! Since they are an established flock, I'm sorta of leary about adding more to the pen I have so that means........another coop/run!!! Thanks again.

Over the weekend I tried grapes. They were so funny with the grapes!!! I bought big grapes so it took me a few to realize I needed to break them in half and then I had to throw a few around the pen for them to figure out what I had but then after that ....wow...did they love those grapes...

I voted for your little cutie pie!! Hope she wins!!

Thanks about the warning about the potato peels. They were the red new potatoes and they were raw. I missed the part about them being cooked. I was careful to not gave them any that had green underneath the skin but didn't see the cooked part. CRAP!! I hope they will be okay!! I feel bad...

Nothing cuter than a baby duck! ITA!!! and Welcome!! I just joined today and I'm already hooked!! I'm going to subscribe to this topic because I might put in a smallish duck pond in a few years once we get a little more settled in here. I don't want to try too many new things at once!!LOL...

Thank you so, so much for this warning!! New chicken mom here and this is something I wouldn't have thought of worrying about. I hardly ever wear earrings and I don't know if it will be an issue for my son, he has gauges in his ears. I am going to tell him of this post, nonetheless. Thanks...

What you going to do when one is inside the nest box? See...the moment I hit the submit button I knew someone was going to bust this newbie for that one!!! LOL I will probably at the very least urinate down my leg, most likely faint too!!! I'm not afraid of them if I see them before they make...

I was so excited to get home and try some of the tips you have shared!!! I found out that of my 10 chickens 6 of them are RIRs, two of them are Dominiques (Biscuit and Gravy) and then two are still ????'s. I think I know what they are but at this point I'm still doing detective work. I took...

Oh man you just skivved me out!!! Where your babies all okay?? Snakes....I bought a hoe just for the inside of my pen in case one of Satan's hand puppets decides he wants to try and come in my pen while I'm in there. Glad you weren't bitten any more severely.

Forgive me if I have posted in the wrong forum but I was hoping some of you seasoned chicken owners might could share with me some tips on how to get my chickens to eat from my hand? I just got them yesterday, they were my MIL's, there are 9 females and the 1 rooster. I got real close late...

Oh wow!!! How pretty!! Such lovely colors! I'm a brand new chicken mom and I just harvested my first egg this morning. It was just a plain ole brown egg but I sure was proud of it. If I had pretty eggs like yours they would sit in the fridge for a while so I could show them off!!! LOL