Recent content by WestSideChicken

I haven't' been on for a while, life is too chaotic. Even today we are trying to fix an electrical problem that left us without power in several rooms yesterday. However I wanted to share about the strange bird we found. Two weeks ago, we noticed a strange bird on a neighbors second story patio...

I have a 4 month old Cochin bantam that I almost.wish I could breed when she is older. I decided to try and start taking my two 4 week old chicks outside during the nice weather to acclimate just during the day time. Instead of fighting in the outdoor brooder while I figured out how to split...

While we were trying to build the kids trampoline... Look who was trying to sneak into the playhouse... Until my 7 yr old daughter caught them and chased them out. Then they went around the other side and tried to sneak in the window.

The two dogs will not be getting my chickens again. I never worried much about wild predators except cats, but thought the coop and run were pretty secure especially since they were also inside a fenced garden as well. Never would have imagined that a dog could rip apart that thick of wire. We...

Celebration night turned tragic. I went outside to collect any late eggs before we had my son's birthday cake only to see two dogs running out of our garden. The garden has a fence around it and then the run and coop are inside of that! The 2 dogs had torn the hardware wire off the side of the...

Demosthine: I am so sorry you had to deal with such an incident. Sometimes teachers get a bit over eager to save the world without thinking or checking facts. As a teacher, I am a mandated reporter. However, I always check and think first. I get to know my families and wether it is just a slim...

It is amazing to me to walk outside and see a little 1 pound bantam standing tall and proud crowing like he is a big boy. I have known since he started losing his fluff that this chick was a he, but this little old English game banty sure is turning out to be beautiful! Wouldn't even be a...

Wow you are just down the street from me. I hope you find out who did it! Poor little chicks!

We got our first egg from our RIR this morning... So now we have two layers! My 7 yr old wanted to claim it was from her chicken since we keep threatening to stew her beautiful but non laying 7 m old EE. However it was a nice brown egg just a bit darker than our BR lays.

I'm so sorry that is horrible! I haven't seen coyotes around our area in a decade.

After a couple days of giving it a little stuffed friend which really settled it down, my hubby who claims to hate bantams came home with 3 more! Another black feather foot and two silver ones. We went from 4 chickens to 8 to 10 to 14 and a turkey.... They keep multiplying! And he was telling...

So I did a silly thing... I gave in to my kids. We already have too many chickens and 6 plus a turkey in the grow out coop. We were at the store and they had tiny feather footed bantams. My daughter melted and we walked out with two. Problem? One died today. Now I have a single week old chick...

Found something strange tonight... Went out to tuck in the chickens for the night. They were already in the coop, so I locked them up. Then I checked the little ones in the old mini prefab coop that we decided to use as a grow out now that the new mansion size one is almost done. When I lifted...

My husbands statement as he heads out the door to Home Depot to get coop materials... "I feel like all I do is work for chickens ". Oh and we got two eggs two days in a row from Taco and now it has been three days with nothing! Frustration has replaced excitement.

My other babies. Fire, Squirrel, Tom, Puffypants, Ghost, Marshmellow, Kat, And Avatar.