Search results for query: *

  • Users: bluerose
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. bluerose

    Small Automatic Waterer?

    I'm looking for a smaller auto-waterer for my 3 girls. Anyone know of any that would work? We used to have a dog waterer that would have done the trick but, alas, we tossed it when the dogs decided they didn't like it anymore :roll:
  2. bluerose

    Broody hen laying?

    I have 3 hens and got 3 eggs today... and one hen is VERY broody. Possible? Maybe it's all in her head... so her body is still saying it's egg time but her little pea-brain is saying it's chick time... chickens
  3. bluerose

    Very determined broody- New question!

    My Amber-hen has been shuffling and squawking with her wings out and puffed up like a balloon for the past few days- been out and about and laying, but very disturbed by anybody coming near her.... She spent plenty of time in the nest box today and would screech and puff up when I looked at her...
  4. bluerose

    Saying goodbyes

    My RIR hen Red disappeared yesterday out of the run. No feathers, no signs of any fighting. No places for her to sneak out. I searched the yard- no Red. Nothing this morning or this afternoon. Pecky, Diva and Amber are sort of waddling around lost without their leader. Even though she wasted...
  5. bluerose

    Gaak! Chicken yard weed-whacked!

    My lovely weed-filled chicken yard was weed-whacked today Is it safe for them to go out? I doubt it, they surely use chemicals on other properties where that weed-whacker's been... (gardener's earth-polluting smog-belching YUMMY WEED-WHACKING machine, not ours) How long do I need to...
  6. bluerose

    Spoiled hens... with pics!

    So this morning my dad and I finished putting up a(nother) fence for the hens. They weren't getting out to free-range much because they have discovered that it's fun to dig in the landscaping . So, we put up a fence between 'landscaped yard' and 'un-landscaped yard' (aka chicken-land) and now my...
  7. bluerose

    Aggressive hen?

    I have my suspicions that this gal is androgynous... she has a big ol comb and big wattles, hen feathers, hen behaviors (squats and fluffs the nests) but is definitely far more aggressive than my other three. She's a BO and around 6mo old. Mostly she just pecks. I always either grab her and...
  8. bluerose

    How to protect mesh coop from drafts?

    My girls have a coop and big ol run... coop is octagon, 3 panels solid, the rest mesh (with a palapa over the roof for decoration- looks like a tiki hut from the house!). They're sleeping on the ledge outside of their nest boxes at the moment but we're putting up a roost for them shortly. My...
  9. bluerose

    BO hen with HUGE comb and wattles?

    I have a BO who I was debating whether she was a hen or roo... she really looks like a hen now and acts like one except every so often. 5ish months old and no differences in plumage etc, no crowing, stuff like that. She can be aggressive towards me though... acting sort of roo-like. Her comb...
  10. bluerose

    Ladies and gents... WE HAVE AN EGG!!!!

    this is SO exciting. my dad asked me just last night when 'those chickens of yours are gonna lay some eggs'! either a BO or RIR hen is the culprit...
  11. bluerose

    How to introduce dog to chickens?

    My mom's aussie is FASCINATED with the chickens.... my little dog and the cat could care less (the cat will watch them while they're out scratching around but is FAR too lazy to consider chasing- it would be below his regal status anyways). When they were chicks and hanging out in a crate on...
  12. bluerose

    First day free ranging worries

    My little flock has a nice coop and run, but it's stripped pretty bare (it wasn't exactly lush in the first place, mostly dirt, but there are a couple of bushes they hang out under), so I let them out today to run around and enjoy themselves. They were fine earlier, happily running around. Now...
  13. bluerose

    How to handle aggression?

    I have a 5 mo Buff Orp roo (who I just discovered was a roo- he was *supposed* to be a hen... oh well) who is generally pretty easygoing and relatively tame.. however he has started to get a touch aggressive towards me (puffing up, chest up, 'charging', etc). The first time I was crouched down...
  14. bluerose

    What to do with rooster?

    I got 4 week-old chicks in mid-June- 3 buff Orps and 1 Rhode Island Red. One of the Orps is a boy, I'm sure (tail not nearly as fluffy, slightly smaller, much bigger comb/wattles, have heard bits and pieces of crowing). I don't want chicks, don't want fertilized eggs, don't want a rooster...
Back
Top Bottom