I subscribe to a couple of chicken newsletters. One of them said to give chickens something like cold watermelon for treats in the heat, and in NC we've been having some pretty hot weather lately. We gave the ladies a chunk of cold melon and they LOVED it. I have two questions for you.
1. How...
Hi, All.
The good news is that all of our ladies are laying! (This is our first experience with chickens and we have been waiting for this moment for months!) Of course, even with just 6 laying pullets, that's a LOT of eggs. Even our Polish (that is only supposed to lay 2 - 3 eggs per week)...
Granted, having horses is more like a lifestyle than a hobby, but how many of you enjoy showing your horses, whether it's taking part in dressage, cutting, racing, endurance, some kind of eventing, or just ~showing~ your horse at a specific type of horse show (e.g., Arabian)?
We have an...
Good grief.
I thought my pullet had lost her mind this weekend. Our little flock free-ranges during the day, and at night they line up so we can take them to their little sun porch where they sleep. It was drizzly on Saturday and one of the ladies kept walking into the house (definitely not...
My family and I are new to chicken ownership but we're loving it! We got the bug when researching how to live more sustainably and how to create a backyard habitat. Who knew it would be so much fun to have fertilizer-manufacturing natural pest control??!
Our young ladies are Lucy Pearl (a...