My husband bought a game camera for me for Christmas! He did his own research (gulp) and bought a Delta 8 stealth cam (no glo)
It's set to video, and so far, has only caught me, but I know the little rat ******* raccoons will be visiting shortly!!!
...but an acquaintance was looking for a good home for her 3 chickens....I thought they were all silkies.
She brings over 2 silkies and one big ***** Americana, lol. For someone who has only bantams, a standard chicken is gigantic.
My coop isn't really meant for a big girl, being that the...
...ladies out after being "cooped" in for so long. Frigging 5 minutes later, I hear screaming and look out the window to see "Pompa-doo" hauling ***** to hide under the deck, which is uncommon, she rarely runs.
So I run out to see a Sharp-Shinned hawk by the fenceline, flying back up into the...
We adopted Sir Wallingford or "Wally" about 3 days ago.. He is a min pin/dachshund mix, and he is UNCUT, and about 2 years of age. The family we adopted him from lived on a super busy street and he was prone to digging out and escaping, so they were worried that he would get hit by a car.
We...
I believe Betsy is a Japanese bantam? that whole mixed bag thing from Ideal poultry, lol. She is my super friendly girl with lots of pluck...but not a very big egg. I heard this is about right for their breed? Anyhow, they are tiny, about the size of a penny or marble, and have NO yolk. Zippo...
Amongst my friends here in Texas, I am the only one known for (illegal) chickens and I totally rave about them, but only a few can relate, lol. If you have FB, would certainly appreciate a "like" for "The Fit Green Chicken"
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I have only bantam pullets. My coop is illegal as all hell, and I have made the mistake of becoming that "Crazy Chicken Lady" who names the members of her flock, only to be sorely dismayed when the Predator/Prey relationships rear their ugly heads and the chickens come out (dead) last.
The...
I actually did this one in July...it was something my friends and i decided to do on FB to keep accountable..I wrote my squats for the day on my bathroom mirror. It equals to about 50 squats a day..totally do-able. And do squats do a booty good? YES!
My coop is illegal, in a hard to access area, but I designed the whole thing, and built 99.9% of it on my own. It is a testament of hard work, detemintation, creativity, and every other word to pat myself on the back, lol.
We plan on moving in a couple of years, but I'm almost frantic...
For the last year and a half, I've been really hitting my health and fitness hard, it's partially why I have chickens (for the eggs and companionship!!). I do not even care about weight anymore....it's pretty much about health, strength and maintaining muscle. I like Insanity, don't get to it...
So I bought some chickens off of Craigslist...they were advertised as silkie mixes, very young. Well, the post had been up for awhile, so they were supposedly 5 weeks old. No new photos. I agreed to take all of them (including the roosters) if they would lower the price.
I am no chicken...
I have a Global Sun oven for a little over a year....love it to pieces. Best purchase. I've docked stews, whole chickens, bread, quiche, cookies, hardboiled eggs, rice, beans, whatever else I can throw in there. In the Texas summer, this proves to e awesome because I don't heat the kitchen up...
My girls have been getting hammered this year....
.1st one: my fault: didn't close the run door, so I'm assuming a raccoon helped itself to thankfully only one girl, instead of the other 9. Goodbye Salt.
2nd one: something freaked my girls out at night, so they didn't troop back to the coop at...
don't get me wrong! I love byc. But sometimes I just want to keep that flow of conversation faster....i started "chickens who cross roads" FB page last year, but it didn't take off....I'm talking to myself! Which I don't mind, but anyhow, if you're FB friendly, join in!
...for the night and seemed quite content.
She's in there now, but should I pluck her from her perch and bring her inside? I'm afraid of the morning ***** kicking if I leave her to fend for herself. Or should I wait till morning and just listen for the screeching before I intervene?
As it...
I actually didn't order the full special from Ideal....just 6 feather footed whatevers and 3 clean legged whatevers.
Last year I bought 25 chicks, some I put specificity into, but the rest I ordered assorted. And because I can't keep the boys, I ended up giving away a lot of my specifieds...
I let my girls out of the coop to do what chickens do....hang out in our garden and scratch around in the woods.
I get a knock in the door about an hour later....one of my neighbors ask if I had lost a chicken.....apparently, one of my bantam girls hopped the 5 ft fence, crossed the road, and...
Hold up, before you start sniping me about overcrowding, read my post. I said i was only thinking about it.
Right now, I have 8 bantam ladies, in a 4X6 coop, with a 12 X 6 run. They usually have free-range time during the day for a couple of hours in the woods that surround their coop every...
I guess we all do it....whenever we meet someone, we think we have a general idea of what a person is "like" based on what they look like. Sad, but true. I know that sometimes I throw people for a loop when I happily claim that I own chickens and I built my own coop....I guess they don't think...