Recent content by WiseAlliOwl

Hello! I just wanted to post this as a hatch along because 18 days ago I bought six Ayam Cemani eggs! They were a hefty but decent price and it was sort of a last minute decision (you know how it goes when you get your pay check and the world just seems so grand lol). So after the last...

Hello! So this spring I've decided to start free ranging my flock! I live on a large farm in a very rural area but have kept the birds in a large indoor/outdoor coop due to fear of predators (we have many wide open spaces and birds of prey, plus foxes at night). I'd like to give the hens full...

Cows hands down :)

Update!!! In a odd twist of fate the duckling, whose name is Prunella, has now completely imprinted on me and is now sleeping in my bed on a shrine of paper towels and washable diapers...she also comes to school with me...and most everywhere...so now I am raising her like I would a baby and...

Aw I wish I was, sadly I am in Pennsylvania and that's a little out of the way :( I hope your duck does great though, mine gets along pretty well with the chicks for now, hopefully that doesn't change in the future!

Thanks everyone! I put a mirror in with her and yesterday some of the chicken eggs in the incubator hatched :) she's getting along well with the older one, but the younger ones are bantam chicks and I'm worried they're still to young to go in with them. Until then though, I'm trying to keep...

Well, through circumstances I have now have one duckling, only a day or two old...it's only been home for a few hours but honestly I'm a little worried for it. Will it survive by itself? I mean, I got the heat lamp on him and I've raised ducklings before, but never just one! I want to try and...

Hi, I'm Allison and I've had chickens for five years now and I haven't really gotten rid of any in large numbers. Let's see...I have three giant coops (one is even for retired hens XP) and then at least 7 smaller ones for bantams and polish and other fancy breeds. Hm...I go to Roots County...

Hi so I was wondering if I could get some advice on breeding together two of my chickens? The hen is a bantam and the rooster is a Pheonix Long Tail bantam (but he is still twice as big as the hen). Both of them are close to two years old but neither of them have ever been breed before (the...

Hi! Well, I've had chickens for a couple of years now and every so often some of the older ones (ones that either don't lay any more eggs or are just laying their final ones) all get similar symptoms and die off. Normally it's only one or two that die off at a time and I don't think it's...