Its been raining a lot in South East Florida and there are lots of frogs and toads this year. A few of my more adventurous chickens have recently started catching and eating any frogs or toads they come across. The largest one I have seen eaten so far was about a tennis ball size frog...
Yesterday afternoon MY EE hen Buttercup was alone in her small solo coop when we had a bad thunderstorm kick up a mini tornado that went right through my yard. It tossed the little coop with Buttercup still in it about 10 feet. When we went outside looking for all our birds they were all safe...
Thought that those who have not seen it happen before may get a kick out of seeing one of our EE hens(Woody) laying an egg.
She is a five month old hen that has been laying 6-7 pastel light green eggs weekly for about the last month.
We have nine chickens in our flock, six of that are almost six months old and recently started laying, The three others are about six weeks younger two wyndottes and one easter-egger. We were keeping the younger ones together but separtated from the others for their own safety. Then the...
I'm wondering if this is a rooster? Its a Easter Egger we got as a day old chick from our local feed store in December. When it walks it holds itself very straight and upright, its tail feathers stand up high. The last thing is he is getting picked on badly by our other birds (see his purple...
We bought our baby chicks home on Novemebr 2. We just got our first eggs yesterday, funny thing was I just finished building our coop's dormer addition (3 unit Egg Box) the night before. My wife found two eggs on the side of the house in a little niche. Then just a few hours later watched one...
Just finished my new mobile coop/tractor, its eight feet long, four wide and eight plus feet high. We live down in South Florida, so cold is not an issue but heat is so its fully open on the front and half open on sides plus the rafters. I used 1/2 inch hardware cloth for the floor and all the...
I got him/her as the smallest and lightest colored golden sexlink of five chicks we bought at the local feed shop in November. This was originally the runt of the bunch and at about a month old we had to separate it from the other chicks because it was getting pecked so bad. All our chcks are...
Hi from Southwest Ranches, Florida about 20 miles due west of Fort Lauderdale, the last stop before hitting the Everglades.
We recently moved here from California. Our new next door neighbor has chickens. When we first moved in they shared some fresh eggs with us. The awesome taste and deep...