Recent content by WoundedEgo

robinfox, I recently moved (well about a year) from Alabama to Delray. I live in an apartment (Citation Club). Have you ascertained whether there is an ordinance against keeping chickens in the city? I miss my chicks!

This is my favorite word game. It is called "Fowl Words." Free. Go here, and browse down until you see the link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/more.htm Or go here directly: http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/fowl_play.htm Bill Ross

This winter I am going to provide heat for my chickens in the form of straw and leaves. The straw provides wind protection, and as the organic material breaks down, it heats up. Here in NE Alabama, that is really all they need, apart from protection from rain. I was going to use wood, but now I...

That is a nice station. I don't have any detour cones, but I do have some sheet metal so I'd like to make some cones from that. Could anyone who owns a metal cone measure the two openings for me and post them in a reply? Thanks!

I am down to one rooster and one hen. I have begun allowing them to free range. I finally found where she is depositing her eggs, which she is not sitting on. Are they all rotting? Or will she gather up a bunch (there are 7 now) and then sit on them? It has been as hot as 93 degrees this week...

Are you saying to cut perpendicular to the neck at the point where the waddle meets the feathers, or are you saying to cut some what vertically, along the waddle/feather junction? (I'm thinking that the waddle runs vertically, and we want a horizontal cut). Bill Ross

I heard from others that they free range their chickens and they don't feed them any special feeds at all and they do claim that they do fine. I've been trying that and the chickens don't seem too interested in the feed I set out. I do toss them bread, which they love, and wheat. If the feed...

I killed my first chicken today. I'm still a bit traumatized. I was not excpecting him to stay so calm and trusting. I tied his legs together, and put a plastic Walmart bag (with a hole in the bottom) over his head, effectively serving the same function as the bleach bottle, I guess. But I'm...

And which came first? The chicken or the egg?!

As with human babies, the egg is rotated just before "birth."

I asked my hen and she said that she didn't care "as long as they don't come out sideways!"

Go for it. You will soon be hooked on these wonderful creatures. Some caveats: * there is such a thing as "too much rooster." Be sure you can take (and your neighbors can take) a man with a loud ego; * sex. It happens. If you have a rooster and a hen you will have a dozen chicks in the spring...

Regarding pix - my wife is out of the country for another month - with the camera! (I hate that she is travelling back so close to Thanksgiving - so many turkeys get killed around then!) But I do plan on posting pix when I can. I looked at your blog and you have done a beautiful job. Someone...

I guess the only ways to lock the chickens in at night and let them out in the morning are: * manual * electric door I dread manual because I'm sure to forget them and they will be locked in their little box for hours. Do the little automatic doors work ok? I only saw it on one site in the US...

Quote: The fence is about 4 feet tall. I have all kinds of trees growing in the run that I hate to cut down. My thinking about hawks is that my plan is to let the chickens roam free all day (when hawks attack) anyway, so I'm thinking that in this bigger picture, the netting won't really help.