Recent content by wallychkn

We have had chickens for just over a year. Has been a great family project. Had broody hen so got fertilized eggs from a friend off his farm. She sat for 20 days and today we have 5 new baby chicks. Dont know what they are but kids are having fun. One of the five doesnt look so good. It...

Txs for the help. Jeff ill check out the link. $20 sounds great compared to what ive seen so far.

Does anybody know of a good automatic waterer i could use with a rainbarrel system

Thanks for the help. I just thought that its easy to grow and it would give them some nice green stuff to run around in. They freerange in a well manicured backyard most of the time. They keep leaving me presents on my patio and i want them to have thier own area. I am also planting lots of...

North florida

I am completly redoing the back yard. I am fencing a 24'x24' section of the yard for them to have as thier own. The yard has centipede grass but the area I am moving them to is shady doesn't have much grass. I was thinking about tilling up their area and throwing some rye seed to give them...

Need help adding to established flock. Two sex links, two brahmas, one cochin. My sexlink grannychicken rules the roost. Last time i tried to add to the flock grannychicken went on the rampage. I still have some weeks left before they get out of the brooder.

I am looking for some maran fertilized eggs or baby chicks. Anybody know where i can get some?

I figure if i had an egg eater i would see at least some shell left. Also i set traps and already have a rat. I put hardware cloth on the coop and i have had something chewing holes at the bottom. I am going to replace the hardware cloth with weldedwire next weekend. Noticed one of my...

I live in nortwestern fl and had about 5 to 6 eggs a day from only five chickens!!! But in the last month egg count went down to 2 or three. Have one hen that went broody so that may account for one egg a day. I have killed a corn snake recently in the back yard that was going in the direction...

I have a friend with a farm and he gave me some fertilized eggs. I will let her hatch them out and hopefully that will break her. Txs for the help...

I have a very broody cochin hen. Sometimes i have to pick her up and pull her off the nest. She went broody about three weeks ago. I have seen her off the nest a few times and she is eating. Im just worried that she is sitting too much. Im thinking about getting some fertlized eggs and...