Recent content by turtlelaura67

Thank you! I'll exchange it for the 1/2".

Hi everyone. We are putting up another run, and I have a question about the best size and gauge of hardware cloth. I ordered a roll from Home Depot and picked it up yesterday - 1/4" 23 gauge - but I'm wondering if I should have gone with the 1/2" 19 gauge. The frame of the run is built from a...

I had some silkie eggs last year that I was about to toss since they'd been there for longer than 21 days. One day I came home from work and all three had hatched!

Thanks, Mary. He's been a tough nut to crack. And I can't go overboard with him, otherwise I'll get a nice nip on the hand to show me who's boss. But he's come a long, long way. I just wish I could trap him to get him neutered and into the house with the other cats. He's super smart and will not...

I love mine. When I was a kid I was in the 4H horse club but I wanted chickens. At the fair in August I spent all my time in the poultry tent and was obsessed with the Polish chickens. But my mom said absolutely not - too noisy and too messy. Now she's the one who takes care of all of her...

This is Stripes. Stripes showed up here about 7 years ago, and he was at least a year old then. He was completely feral. Took 3 years to get him to come close to me. Now he'll purr and roll over and love on me, but I still can't get him into the house.

They're beautiful! And you have one named Mushroom! That's awesome, because I have a Polish hen named Mushroom Cloud! My other Polish hen is Dandelion, the roo is Spike, and their chick (about a year old now) is Chiclet. My other half bought them for me a few years ago at a livestock auction in...

We used to use electric fencing years ago for turtles. The only trouble we had was it shorting out if anything touched it, like a weed. I'm glad you started this thread because I'm thinking about using it again for my chickens. I'll check out the Premier 1.

If you are living in -52 degree temperatures, I think I'll stop complaining about the low 30s we're expecting next week. It was about 65 today. All joking aside, Coffee has something similar on his wattles but without the dark crustiness. I just noticed it several days ago. It was quite cold...

Yeah, it's weird how you think you're one thing and you turn out to be another! I want to do the DNA ancestry too. My sister had her daughter's done last year, and everything was what she expected, except for one thing. One set of my great-grandparents was from Spain. So that would make us about...

Wow, my head is spinning!!!! What a shame about all the photos and documents lost. It's really awful because that's all we had also, and there's probably no hope of learning about his family history without it. Some things did survive because my mom has them, like a court martial from the early...

When Flurry and Frosty were young we had them in our dogs' yard for a day. It was a Sunday and I was waiting for John to get home since we were going to pick up fencing for their run. I was upstairs with the door open and heard a commotion from outside. I knew something was wrong so I ran out...

I started, and then got stuck. We have better info on my dad's side. On my mom's side, my great-great grandfather is a mystery. We know he was born in NJ, was in the Civil War at age 15 as a drummer boy, and from his pension record, we know his parents' names. The trouble is, he doesn't show up...

We have one also. We had 4 boys living together, but one, Snowball, was just too much of a bully so we had to take him out. The 3 got along great, but one was killed by a possum last week (broke my heart, we did everything we could to make their run safe). So now it's just Coffee and Snowdrop...

I'm a vegetarian, boyfriend is a hunter. It works because I believe hunting is far, far more ethical than factory farming. Growing up, he was tasked with slaughtering his family's chickens - and he was the only one who could eat them. So our birds are pets and they're with us until God takes...