I'm a little frustrated with our beautiful gold laced Barnevelder, Marble. She started laying in the middle of July 2013 and since then she has been broody 5 times! The third time we got her a couple of fertile eggs to hatch. She was just a great mommy and everything went well. But we can't do...
We have four hens, and two baby chicks. We knew our old coop wouldn't be sufficient for 6 chickens so I designed this new coop and DH and I built it. We're very proud of it
Pictures and details are on my blog.
We've made four modifications so far:
1) stapled wire mesh inside the window so...
Hi all. I am new to posting but have been a reader for a while. We have 4 hens, but only 3 are laying. Anyway, I wanted a way of rotating the eggs and came up with this device which I thought I'd share here. I started with two white metal poles. These (and more of the same) were salvaged from...
Hi all. Sorry for my first post being a negative one! I have a question about one of our 4 chickens. She is a white Wyandotte, who is 9 months old (and still not laying). In July she became very lethargic and the absolute picture of misery. She'd hunch down, standing separately from the other 3...