Notice: I am writing this to help those who want to use a crow collar. Not everyone agrees with there use. It is a personal decision to use them. Please comment if you have questions, not because you are voicing your personal opinion about there use.
Purpose:
Rooster collars, are designed to...
So my family is crazy excited to start breeding our on chickens this year for our own familys eggs.
We have purchased fertilized eggs before, which turned out wonderful. Observing the entire process of broodies, hatching out chicks, flock integration, etc... It was such an easy process for my...
When we hatched with a broody, lots of people had all different experiances. From horror stories, to easy peasy. Our experiance was awesome, easy, and a thrill to watch the mama teach the babies about life.
We put crumble in the food container for a month. Mama showed the babies where the food...
I like how you designed the water nipple system to both inside the coop and underneath. My brain is rethinking our watering situation. How often do you have to fill that tube with water? Any plans to hook up a water hose to it?
Hehe Carolyn ; P
Worst predator we have seen was a bald eagle in our pine trees in the backyard. That was three years ago, and before we limbed them 25' up. And the racoons got sick of being shot at by a pellet rifle 2 years ago. Havnt seen any predators since. Our cat is very territorial.
You...
I thought I posted a picture ther of it, must not have : / I am more active on the FB page then here. Its easier : P
Thank you for the compiment too : )
Covering our pen is not an option, due to its location next to our garage. It would look horrible if we covered it. If airborn redators come...
So, after to many conversations and trying different things to keep our girls in the pen when we want them to stay in the pen, my wife and I made the decision to clip our girls wings. The best sources of information I found on the topic, are these two links...
I used 3 pictures as my reference, then free handed it. I liked the tail of one, breast of another, and legs and comb of one. I combined all three to get my rooster. You've seen it in person : P
We are now down to 5 chicks : ( Wife came home today from chores and found one of the buff laced polish chicks dead, with no visible signs of any wrong doing : / sigh.
My wife and I are so overjoyed, I just had to drop in and post pictures of our broody momma, and her six chicks. I frequent BYC on facebook more then I do the actual website lol. To many posts to keep up with on this thread. On to the babies!
Momma: Black Copper Marans
3 Buff Laced Polish...
Sure its been a few years, but I wanted to say thanks for posting. You did a fabulous job painting it.
I myself have just finished our rooster weather vane for our coop. Ill post it in my coops page soon after I get pictures uploaded.
Well, I finally got a hold of one GCM pullet. Thanks go to Travis Lacey. He drove up to washington from oregon to do chicken buisness with someone who lives not to far from me, and he brought me his only GCM pullet this year that hatched only 2 days before selling it to me. Now it is under our...
She has been doing that this past two days. I also took the hanging feeders and set them on the ground. I put marbles in the water feeder as well so the chicks dont fall in and drown. Our other seven hens dont seem to mind the marbles either. So all is well in our coop. 7 roosting hens, and 1...