Recent content by Vickir73

Cockle - the stop sign is for the goat - the goat reads much better than the chickens. look at my new broody next boxes!! Just put 13 eggs under a cochin Tuesday night. Hopefully she'll hatch at least half, although half of them were Maran eggs and I think they are little bit harder to hatch...

ChickensAreSweet: I will try the unrefined coconut oil (just happen to have some). I don't want to cut the feathers as sometimes it takes 6 weeks for them to grow back and since it's show season I don't want to take the birds to the show with missing feathers - Judge definetly wouldn't like...

we got a few sprinkles yesterday, but nothing more than that. We finished the new chicken run this weekend. It will also double as a new buck pen (we will cut "doggie" doors in the main coop doors so the chickens can get in and out, but the goat can't get in.) We added a new fence, then...

Harry, I was wondering the same thing about the ash. We have burn piles (some with just wood, others with other stuff) and I was wondering if I could just to scoop it up and put it in the coop (the piles with only wood, of course). My hen didn't make it - I discovered she was egg bound also...

by the time I got home she had passed. she was egg bound, but since everyone in that coop is not laying yet I don't know if this was her first or just too big (i'm getting some very large eggs from my Marans). Her symptoms were sitting on the ground (which those birds never do unless they are...