My BR Roo, Strangle, is a bit of an odd fellow, he tried to become aggressive when he was around 12 weeks old, and I used Rooster Reds methods on him for taming a roo, and it worked. He is now a very tame and calm roo, protective of his hens, but not floggy or rude to humans. He has been doing...
I just very recently became part owner of 6 wonderful knuckleheads, all of whom had been living in pretty gnarly conditions,(think- mud bog/slaughter house/Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and you have the conditions. The Swiss/Toggenberg milker that I have is at least 20 lbs under weight, and everyone...
These folks have hit a rough patch and are having to liquidate all their animals. They have all organic chickens, heritage turkeys, geese, ducks and even goats! They really need to sell them for travelling money so that they can get up to Wisconsin, where the man has just gotten a new job...
It has been the week from heck!! My ex-husband was admitted to the hospital on Sunday for Pnuemonia, (after being sick and grumpy and hateful for the past two weeks), so that gave me a few hours to get a major paper done for one of my classes. He will be off work for at least a week at the worst...
Talk about rotten timing! I have the final paper of my class due , dinner to cook, kids to bathe and put to bed and animals to feed and prepare for night, and my oldest son comes in and tells me that I have a ,"Sick chicken in the coop" that has supposedly been there for hours and wont come out...
Ok, this is going to gross out some, but here goes; When I work around my chooks, cleaning the coop, the nest boxes or even gathering the eggs, anything that kicks up the dust and dander from the straw and the poo, I have a tendency to get styes on my eyes.
I thought I had managed to defeat the...
My chickens have just started laying, in fact, out of 37 hens, I only am getting around 3-5 eggs a day. I recently got my first green eggs from one of my EE gals and I was tickled to death! Most of the eggs have been tiny, almost banty sized, so I wasnt expecting much, but a couple of them were...
According to his current owners, he is very small, has feathers on his feet and was in the bantam bin at the feed store...so was he left there by gremlins or is he something cool?
Now I only need about a thousand or so more, to prove to the ex-hubby that it was alllllll worth it, and that he really does need to help me finish that never ending coop project.
I have 2 very handsome Black Astrolorpe Roos that are approx. 14 weeks old. Dan(m) the Roo is probably best for a Sunday dinner in a few weeks, he is too rough, of nasty temperment and pretty hostile, though he is a fine specimen of roo.
Gaylord is not as handsome, but he has a very nice...
I finally learned how to post a picture!!! SO...could someone PLEASE tell me, what is this little one? It has deformed feet and legs, so I cant tell if it is going to have spurs or not, and it has sort of a comb, and wattles, but it doesnt act roostery at all, but with Dan in the yard, it cant...
My 12 year old son had a lightbulb moment yesterday! I had been at one of the major pet stores pricing shock collars for the ex's German Shorthaired Pointer/bane of my existence/chicken stalker/psychotic dog, when my son said, " Mom, some people use e-fences to keep dogs in their yards, if you...
I just took in a 10 month old, beautiful Neopolitan Mastiff/Dogue De Bordeux cross , and besides being a bit of a wuss, he also has a dudley nose, that is already a scary shade of pink. I had thought about using blukote on him to protect him from the intense rays at this altitude, but I am...
I think my roo, "Strangle" has an issue with me wearing shorts! Now, I will admit, it has been a looong winter, and the glare off of my legs probably knocked out a few satellites , but my roo is giving me a complex!
I dug out the one pair of shorts I own,( I am a boots and wranglers gal, even...