I love feeding my hens big, fat horn worms. Usually found while weeding on my tomato plants (bad worms)! They are fun to watch as they run after one another!
I use Marigolds ....they ward off alot of bugs .....I also wash my egg shells and crumble them up, scattered them all around the tomatoes and it cut out the Hornworms that were making lunch of my leaves.
My three cochins.....Peckers (white) she pecks alot!, Bess ( Huge and grey) she is motherly and the boss! and Silkie (black) she has the most beautiful silky looking black feathers (she is also my baby, lol)
I had at one time Rocky the Rooster , he was a hugeeeeeeeeee Road Island Red and he...
Well I don't know what I will do today ......Yesterday I shook my tomatoes to make sure they are getting pollenation, let the girls (chickens) out to scratch around and get the bugs out of my little front garden. I was excited to see my first squash and a few tomatoes I also suckered the...
I had quite a few breeds at one time. Now I have 3 cochins! I have had them a little over a year and they are great! My kids and even my husband love toting them around or bending down and petting them, I get tickled as some one mentioned in one of the reviews, they rocket squat and wait for...
I have downsized and moved to the city, booo lol but I still have 3 chickens, I decided to go with Cochin's. They lay brown eggs and are friendly. They also are quite hilarious. My husband likes to pet them and has a heavy hand so the largest of my Cochin's (Bess) spreads her legs, gets a...
Hiya all!
I am deep in south Ga and been in the chicken world for about 2 years so still a newbie by far! I dumped myself into the chicken world by visiting the local hardware store 2 years ago around Easter! Color chicks, exotic chicks, I was hooked! Sicilian Buttercups are my fav! but not my...