What are some ideas for toys for chicks? I have two and three day old chicks. I put a wire tie in their brooder and they loved it, what else can i use?
What are your best poultry names (that you have named your bird/s)? Mine are:
Eggitha
Shelly
Miss Peregrine (my white leghorn who acts like a falcon)
Henrietta (HEN-rietta)
Post your chicken stories here. Here's one of mine. Still a work in progress.
One windy day, Eggy and her friends were running as fast as they could against the wind, getting absolutely nowhere. The wind had just forced them past Eggy’s house, and they were battling it to get to her back...
Some of our peafowl flew the coop. We caught one (chased her into the run), but two peahens are still missing. How do I catch them? We are going to the feed store to pick up bird netting and dried mealworms, and we are going to go into our woods with a net. Do they have a favorite treat?
Try to guess this brain teaser. Whoever gets it right gets to post another one.
Donald and Regan have 4 chicks, named Michael, Farley, Solomon, and Larry. They just hatched a baby chick and are picking the name. It's down to Olivia, Tiffany, and Jasmine. The head rooster, a music teacher...
My BO rooster Buffy used to love me. He used to follow me, come when called, stuff like that. And the night one of our chickens got killed by one of our dogs, he was suddenly skittish. He runs away from me whenever I came near him and stuff like that. Maybe ha got freaked out or something at the...
I have 6 peafowl, and they are scared of me. The mom and dad were born wild, and caught and sold to us. Later, they had babies, who had let me hold them during the first month, and then they stopped trusting me for no reason. I tried treats, and I tried sitting near them, but they don't trust me.
I have two questions about breeding.
1. One of our roosters, Percy, keeps breeding with this one hen, Shelly, about 12 times that I've seen. Her neck feathers are almost gone now. How do I stop him?
2. One of our Australorp hens keeps wanting to sit on eggs. It has happened 4 times this year...