Search results for query: *

  • Users: LI chickie
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. LI chickie

    My chicks are grounded!

    My 6 chicks are about 6 months old. I've been letting them out of their run for some free time daily since they were tiny babies. They normally stay in the horse corral or barn. I began unsupervised free time months ago and I would check on them periodically. Well yesterday around 3 I let them...
  2. LI chickie

    Sold out!

    I brought 2 dozen eggs to work yesterday for someone. Another person handed me a empty carton I told him Wednesday. Today I got an order for another dozen and someone else wants 6! I think I need more chickens!
  3. LI chickie

    Feather loss on backs

    i noticed one chick (22 weeks old) had a small patch on her back with missing feathers. Last night I noticed another chick was missing feathers also. I don't have a rooster and it's right were the base of the tail is. Everything I've read has said mites or protein. I still had meat maker so I...
  4. LI chickie

    Almost a catastrophe

    I always let the girls our while I do chores and clean the horse corral. I look and see a chicken up on the barn door with my horse standing there and some chickens on the ground. I start walking closer thinking great picture then I realized my horse had stepped on the chicken and she couldn't...
  5. LI chickie

    Someone laid an egg in the run

    I went out to the chickens I check for eggs before I left for work (they are about 21 weeks old) I saw them pecking at a egg that somebody laid in the run on the ground. I quickly grabbed it and collected the 3 eggs in the nest box. I realized that not all 6 chicks are laying yet I've been...
  6. LI chickie

    Vent checking a learning experience

    Every night when I lock my now 19 week old chicks there is usually 1 that is not up on the roost so I always pick her up and put her on it. Last night there were 2 on the ground (I have 6). I was going to check everyone's vent to make sure they looked clean. I put the 2 girls up on the roost and...
  7. LI chickie

    Picking up chickens by their feet

    My chicks are now about 15 weeks old and I have never picked them up by their feet. I saw this on the TV Show Coop Dreams this morning. Once you grab their feet and hold them upside down you can stroke/support them by the breast and they are calm. It said to release them by laying the chicken on...
  8. LI chickie

    Taste like...feathers!

    i have a 5-1/2yr old White Shepherd. Very high prey drive. I've taken her sheep herding and the trainer said she's got a lot of natural instinct and very mouthy (shepherds tend to be mouthy). She's always been infatuated with the chicks but I've never let her loose with them. Last night I let...
  9. LI chickie

    Coop Dreams TV show

    Ok so who else watched the Coop Dreams TV show on the Destination America channel? It was cute. I laughed the wife reminded me of my husband when I started talking about chickens.
  10. LI chickie

    Opossum dying in my horse corral

    Yesterday I went out back to do my chores. The first thing I do is let my chicks out of their run for some freedom in the horse corral while I'm cleaning. I head out to pick the pen an see a furry thing in the other end of the corral. It was an opossum that I thought was dead. My husband poked...
  11. LI chickie

    Cabbage on a string

    I picked up a head of cabbage drilled a hole thru it and hung it in the run for the girls. They loved it!
  12. LI chickie

    Getting a taste of freedom

    I have 5 RIRs & 1 Wyandotte about 11weeks old. They've been out in the coop for several weeks. Whenever I go out there I'll call out "hi girls" and such they always come to greet me at the fence. They aren't super friendly but allow me to touch them but prefer not to be held. I started letting 2...
  13. LI chickie

    Only chicken peeps will understand

    I've had my 6 chicks since April 2nd so they are about 8 weeks old. I've learned so much from this group and I really enjoy having chickens. Both my husband and I work full time and some nights I don't have much time so I'll do my chores and feed all the animals and call it a night. But there...
  14. LI chickie

    Another guess the gender thread!

    Does anyone want to give their best guess with these 5 week old chicks?
  15. LI chickie

    Temp could drop to 45

    Temperatures could go down to 45 tonight I'm thinking it might be better to bring the girls in the house rather than their coop tonight. We won't run electric in the coop, it's attached to my 2 stall barn. Last night when I went to check them they were huddled together and felt warm they are...
  16. LI chickie

    Baby chicks on their new roost

    My girls checking out their new roost
  17. LI chickie

    My chicks at 31 days old

    I'll get better pics over the weekend is like to let them spend the daytime in their coop and bring them in the crate at night. It gets warm in my sunroom during the day so I've been turning the light off.
  18. LI chickie

    Renting chickens story on the news

    There was a story on the news tonight my husband couldn't wait for me to see. You can rent a few chickens they come with a small coop/run for $400. The family they interviewed loved the chickens and ended up adopting them for an additional $250. My husband said see you could have rented them...
  19. LI chickie

    My coop

    [/IMG] This weekend we do the fence! Can't wait to get the girls out!
  20. LI chickie

    Sanitary issues with shavings

    I converted a xlarge dog crate into my brooder for my 15 day old chicks. There is plastic on the sides but a lot gets out of the bottom. They've only been in it since Saturday afternoon and it's quite dirty already. I'm going to clean it out tonight but what else can I do or use to make it...
Back
Top Bottom