Hi Everyone,
I have a 4x8 coop that I've given a thorough cleaning twice over the past several months. Consequently, my relatively small compost bin is full to the brim with chicken poop, shavings and veggie scraps. What do you all do with the poop?
Hi All,
Today I found one of my chickens (13 weeks old) lying on the ground and not able to get up. She was awake but as the other chickens walked on top of her legs, she couldn't move her legs to get them off or even complain as they "trampled" on her. I picked her up and gave her a warm...
So I am a complete newbie and making my first attempt at incubating and hatching our very chicks. We already have chicks (oldest is ~7 weeks old and youngest are 3 weeks old) but we would like our daughter to see "where chicks come from"!
We set the incubator earlier last week to let it...
Hi,
Just recently joined and haven't had a chance to introduce ourselves. We caught the chicken bug after meeting several families oooiing and ahhhing about raising hens, hearing how "deeeeeeliiicious" fresh organic eggs are, how much personality each girl has and how fun they are to raise...
Someone here is offering Emphrodesia eggs. I have never heard of this breed and cannot find anything on this forum or online. My guess is that it is misspelled but I have no idea what the true breed name might be. Any thoughts?
I appreciate your valuable input everyone!
-mc