Hey everyone! We're up in Washington now (Boo, it's so wet up here! We've already had mites and worms. Yuck.) but I need some advice and I trust you all more than any other chicken people. Our feeder has brutally killed two of our chickens. A little prong came loose and speared our favorite...
Ron, I love those chickens! It is so cute when they have buddies. We have two of Deann's English Orps that we hatched (blue and black) and they are besties. It's so cute to see their huge fluffy buns running around together. We named them Dorothy and Roberta. They don't really like us, and if...
Oh how flippin' cute is he! (Or she). Such a pretty shape.
One of our EE's hatched some babies under our house a while back. It is so cool! She was our first broody. She hatched four but one disappeared. Three still healthy! I want to get pictures, they're cuties. One girl, one boy and one...
When I lived in Oregon I had mine tested because of some intense fatigue I was dealing with and my levels were "critically low", enough that they had me come in for shots to get it up immediately. They make some delicious lemon gummies with Vit D :)
We've been told she is a pure German Shepard, and her size and coat would lead me to believe that is probably true. When's she's fluffy she looks much more like a GSD. She's so good with the kids, especially my two year old son. She follows him around outside and plays in the dirt with him. We...
Oh my goodness, you are so nice! Thank you very much. A cochin bantam would be fun :) I am hoping to make this a birthday gift for my daughter. I'm sure she would appreciate any chicken that was "hers". It's really cute to see her with the silkie, they've bonded so much. Anouk doesn't really...
Thank you everyone for the kind words! I really appreciate the send off :)
We did have trouble with our landlord, good memory! I will surely be glad to be rid of him. My husband does effects for video games. And we have other hens, but her bff is our silkie roo, and she doesn't seem...
Hi everyone! Sorry I've been MIA. It's been busy around here.
We will be leaving California next week, as my husband got laid off. We are taking all our chickens (26!) and their 12x7 coop to Seattle area with us. Actually they will have a few month stay with a friend in Oregon while we try and...
Hi everyone! Sorry I've been MIA. Been so busy with the chickens I haven't had much time to chat about them. We've been having a coyote problem and have lost four. We know what to do about that, luckily. What I do not know what to do with is all our roosters. We have so many! And this morning I...
I haven't opened the incubator yet, so I'm still not sure what is on her buns but this morning she is up and wobbling around with the five others! All my eggs that went into lockdown hatched!
Lovely English Orps from Deann have surprised me by hatching 12 hours earlier than I expected. Of the six that went into lockdown (out of 7 - one blood ringed by day 10) all have pipped and 3 are out. With one of them, though, I just don't know what I'm seeing...
The white stuff on it's...
One of our chickens, Howl (a Black Japanese Bantam), who is nicknamed Ninja, has been spending her nights somewhere other than the coop. I caught her before dusk and shut her in last night, but two nights before I couldn't find her and same with tonight. But tonight our sweet little Tuck seems...
Where do you buy it? Maybe I can have Mark pick it up when he's in Novato. Or we can use it as an excuse to come see you! I bought the Bar Ale flock (I think it is all purpose... can't remember the exact name) yesterday, so we'll see how it goes. I've just been using Purina but I would really...
It was starting to be discussed. I think Ron was just offering a friendly reminder. I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but the post above doesn't sound very nice. I don't think anyone was offended by being cautioned about the rules.
Ah see, the problem with the internet..............very...