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  1. brookwoodpat

    Well it finally happened to me too

    Both of my campine hens refuse to go in the coop at night. I've been pulling them out of a cedar tree (grabbing the tip of the branch and pulling it down to reach them) and putting them in a coop every night for year. My sympathies on your loss. I just lost a chickenf or the first time too (to...
  2. brookwoodpat

    After a year, I finally lost one

    I appreciate all the sympathy. It's so hard for me to believe she is really gone. White Tail did have a great life. She had an acre to wander in, all the green grass and clover, weeds and bugs she could eat. She had plenty of good treats too-- canned cat food, hot cornbread, lots of...
  3. brookwoodpat

    After a year, I finally lost one

    I found the feather spill from my missing chicken. It was just outside the fence, in a place where I have found it missing before, when it was trying to get back inside. I looked in that place last night for it, and I don't remember seeing feathers then, but it was dark,and maybe I missed it...
  4. brookwoodpat

    missing chicken

    I agree that I am suspicious that she might be doing that. I really just had one escape artist chook, and she suddenly began leaving also every morning for a few days and I wonder if she was laying eggs in a special far away nest and now is sitting on them. I hope so anyway. Thanks for giving...
  5. brookwoodpat

    missing chicken

    I'ave had my chickens for a year, 11 chickens that free range in my acre yard (with plenty of cover) and I have never lost one yet, but late yesterday one went missing. I wasn't too worried as I have a couple of problem chickens that sometimes will work on finding a way over or under the...
  6. brookwoodpat

    Personality vs. Egg Production

    I have Red Sex links, black sex links, buff orpingtons, RIR, golden campines and silver campines. The best layers, laying huge eggs, very young, and laying all winter were the Red sex links. All the red sex links were very nice birds, great friendly personalities and the friendliest of all my...
  7. brookwoodpat

    give me strength

    I don't have kids, actually. But it is hard because they are used to a big acre and it's hard for me to see them upset about being cooped up in that little run. I agree with you that more days would be better. I'm just not sure I can hold out and keep them in there that long. I do know it...
  8. brookwoodpat

    give me strength

    I have eleven hens (four are egg laying, the other six are holding off till spring), that free range all day in my fenced acre and nine of them go into a coop at night. Two of them -- a silver campine and a golden campine, have been perching in a tree, resisting all my efforts to catch them at...
  9. brookwoodpat

    Buying Hens,How do U tell if they,re still young enough to lay??

    I'm not a chicken expert, but that buff doesn't look like she is old enough to lay. Her comb is tiny. I have a buff like that and she is not laying yet either. The chickens that I have that are laying are a month older, and before they began to lay, their combs got bigger and redder and their...
  10. brookwoodpat

    red stars have begun

    My 21 week old red stars have all started laying - I have 3 and have been getting 3 eggs a day for the last week - they are pretty much laying in the same spots. I have 3 RIR that are a week or two younger. Two don't have that bright red comb, but one is cherry red. I don't think any of them...
  11. brookwoodpat

    say a prayer tonight

    I'm hoping I found where she was sneaking out -- a small space under the deck where the fence meets a window insert. I blocked it and we'll see if that solves the problem. Every time I found her she was in the same area, and I think she was after old eggshells from a catbird nest. So for the...
  12. brookwoodpat

    say a prayer tonight

    My chicken was safe. I hardly got a wink of sleep and was up at dawn to find her. I have her temporarily locked up in the baby coop and yard. She's very unhappy as she is used to ranging through a fenced acre, but for now, that's where she is going to stay until I can figure out how she is...
  13. brookwoodpat

    say a prayer tonight

    For one of my five month old Red Star hens. They are just starting to lay. She and a friend of hers somehow discovered a way out of the yard (six foot fences) for the first time on Sunday, naturally jusst as I was due at a humane society event. I caught them and put them back inside the fence...
  14. brookwoodpat

    nests for free rangers

    I have a coop for my birds, but they have free range of my acre fenced yard during the day. They have just started laying -- I got six eggs today -- I have 3 hens with bright red combs and three as old but the combs aren't so bright red, and 5 16 week old birds that probably aren't laying yet...
  15. brookwoodpat

    campine has it's own mind

    I have a golden and a silver campine pullet -- both are about 12 weeks old. Unlike the other fifteen chickens I have (RIR, Red Star, Black Star, Buff Orp) the silver campine is very troublesome in that she never wants to sleep in the coop. It is the silver campine that is the problem child...
  16. brookwoodpat

    FEEDER wanted

    I'm looking for a hopper feeder to hang on the side of a coop wall, or something like those PVC feeders with the round holes in the L side of the pipe. All I can find in feeders is the kind that has the white round hopper and the red pan below. I'm fed up with that, because it takes up so much...
  17. brookwoodpat

    Anyone else love fall????

    I used to love fall. It was my favorite season. But now, I have an idiot who fires a propane cannon in the field across from me. The previous owner, who raised cattle, field corn and pumpkins died, and this guy bought the land. After twenty years of normal farm livng, now we have an...
  18. brookwoodpat

    Owl eating all my pets at night!!!!!!

    ...duck and throw it out in the yard and then blame the wildlife for your carelessness when it gets killed. Guess what - since you did nothing, it is *your* fault it got killed. It wasn't the owl that killed your ducks. It was you. I do hope you find a USFW officer on your doorstep. And if...
  19. brookwoodpat

    Owl eating all my pets at night!!!!!!

    ...a license to go adolescently blasting away at everything in the neighborhood because you can't bother to do the only sensible adult thing that *will* keep your ducks safe at night - build them a predator proof shelter and then take the time to lock them in it at night and let them out in the...
  20. brookwoodpat

    wooden chicken coop manufactory

    You would do better to market your coops int the US. In the UK, there are many chicken coops you can buy, and a ton of manufacturers. In the US there are really almost none. You can't buy a reasonably priced, well built premade coop or coop kit for half a dozen or so chickens in the US...
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