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  1. GFamily

    Texas

    Kale became a new favorite of mine. I've been putting it in smoothies and salads. I had never tried kale until last week...now I'm hooked. I already loved and grew my own fresh spinach, but kale might be one for the books around our home!
  2. GFamily

    Texas

    Yeah, Third Day is one of my favorite bands. Wish we could have stayed, but Grace had to wake up at 5:30am for pre-k so we just didn't want to have her out that long and she was crying and getting cranky and tired. Looks soooo yummy. I've had to radically change my diet since last Monday due...
  3. GFamily

    Texas

    Spirit Fest was great. We had to leave before Third Day came on because our daughter was getting very tired and cranky. I'm in the Fort Worth area.
  4. GFamily

    Texas

    Well, yesterday was a long day. My Mom was leaving to go back to Louisiana from visiting us for 4 weeks early that morning. And we let the chickens range while we were all packing up her car and getting ready to go to Church yesterday. Well, we went to go put the girls back up after all of that...
  5. GFamily

    Texas

    Well, we have our first issue with one of the girls pecking the other girl too hard and causing a lesion on her waddle. What do I put on this to make it not get infected and to hopefully keep the birds from pecking it again? Suggestions? Thanks!
  6. GFamily

    Texas

    I will try this. I mentioned it to my husband last night and he seems interested. He was going to make a platform or something underneath the feeders, but this will help. Do you make one big bucket of paste or daily? I have a five gallon bucket I empty half the bag of feed into then once...
  7. GFamily

    Texas

    Well, I already go out there before work, after work to let them free range, then before bed to close their coop after they've settled onto their roosts for the night. I open their feeders between morning and coming home from work then I close them the rest of the night. So it wouldn't be an...
  8. GFamily

    Texas

    Ok, so I need some help.... We switched from the deep litter method to sand inside the coop. The run was already sand, but it's so hot here in Texas that our girls just did not like the deep litter in their coop. I might go back to that in the winter, but not during the summer. Since we switched...
  9. GFamily

    When do chickens lay?

    That is so exciting! Congratulations! A double yolker when she first started laying! Awesome!
  10. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    I had mine prepared with fake eggs and shavings at about week 15. I don't know what breed you have, but mine are Red Sex-Links which are known to lay early like week 18 - week 24 so I wanted them to see the eggs in the nesting boxes well before they began to lay. So far all 3 that have started...
  11. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    I agree with you completely! If they aren't providing they go on the dinner table. I haven't done my own processing, but I saw it when I was a kid because my babysitter owned a farm. I am limited to the amount of chickens I can have legally. I can have up to 20 hens in the city and 1...
  12. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    That is so very true!
  13. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    LOL! Believe it or not I had bunnies growing up so I thought about it. It's my husband that is dead set against the idea. :( haha
  14. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    Well, it's our first time having a flock and since we're not advanced level chicken-keepers, we expected that when we ordered our 15 from McMurray (minimum order) some would die during shipping or something. We didn't know. However, our hens are very healthy. We have read so much on here and...
  15. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    Yes! I never thought I'd be this excited about getting eggs. My 4 year old and I are giddy with excitement each day when we check for eggs. We were even more giddy to find two additional eggs yesterday. I love having chickens! They're so much fun and they offer wonderful little presents...
  16. GFamily

    Texas

    I am so excited we have had 1 hen out of 15 laying for 9 days. The other 14 hadn't come along. Then yesterday, we went to check for eggs in one of the two large nesting boxes we have and our one hen who is laying didn't have an egg for us. She's already laying "medium" sized eggs and on her 4th...
  17. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    I am so excited we have had 1 hen out of 15 laying for 9 days. The other 14 hadn't come along. Then yesterday, we went to check for eggs in one of the two large nesting boxes we have and our one hen who is laying didn't have an egg for us. She's already laying "medium" sized eggs and on her 4th...
  18. GFamily

    When do chickens lay?

    I have 15 hens and only 1 laying hen right now. The one layer lays between 11:00am - 12:00pm everyday so far.....but she has only been laying 1 week. I must say her eggs are small/big/small/big on alternating days. It's kind of weird, but intriguing.
  19. GFamily

    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    I have 15 Red and Black Sex-Link hens and only 1 is laying. They're just now turning 20 weeks at the end of this week. I did not have to tell her where to lay. I didn't even have to show her the nesting boxes. They have curtains on them and she was totally down for it when she was ready to...
  20. GFamily

    Texas

    So I haven't been on here in FOREVER it seems. I'm like 1000 posts behind. I wanted to let you guys know that 1 out of our 15 hens started laying on Friday! It was more exciting than opening a Christmas present!!! She is still the ONLY 1 laying, but the rest of the girls sure are curious as...
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