A few years ago I got three Olive Eggers and only one of them laid olive eggs. Worst than that though, that one who did ended up being my biggest trouble maker in the flock from plucking beards, broody at least once a month, to mating other hens to the point they were loosing feathers. I liked...
Do you have a drilled or dug well, and have you done any recent water tests? You might need a filter on your faucet. Some wells aren't safe to drink from anyway.
For me, it's entertainment on some times, other times it's a coping mechanism. Then unfortunately, I do it so much that I can't seem to stop and there's times I'm doing it fully in the place of normal thinking. :oops:
Plenty. I like getting those big plastic water bottles from the store that used to say "All day hydration" and drinking at least one each day. Sometimes I drink more than one of those in a day. Lately though, I've been stuck with the regular sized water bottles so I haven't been drinking as much...
I have a Noir Marans hen named "Bird" and a Rhode Island Red hen named "Red." On Bird, I had been wanting to use that name for awhile because I always refer to my chickens as "bird." On Red, as un-creative as her name seems, her original name was Ruby, but for whatever reason, the name Red ended...
The cartoon White Fang, along with another White Fang show (the one where the kid was from a city and his mother was a vet). Besides that, I don't know if I have watched any shows all the through. There are shows where I've seen many of the episodes and many of those episodes more than once like...
This. ⬆️
If it's too much of a concern, especially if it is coming close to humans (though it's after all that food - aka, your chickens), it might be worth a call to your local game warden.
I started reading through one of the articles and it sounds like a great story for a (fictional) villain (though I hope people are not legitly doing what the article is talking about). It kinda reminds me of reading about changing the DNA of oranges to stop orange greening disease (around that...
Days 25, 26, and 28:
I was hoping to throw another bird or two on this page tonight, but I got lost somewhere in storyland for a much needed couple of hours.