She was great Saturday. Yesterday afternoon I noticed she was just standing in the coop when my other two came out to get snacks. Today i found her laying unresponsive with a swollen face. I can't see any injuries. Her crop doesn't seem full. I haven't stuck my finger in her butt to look for an...
I let my 3 girls out all day long today. I went to close the coop right at dusk but one was missing. I looked for her and called her thinking she may have gotten separated from her sisters and roosted somewhere outside of the coop. I found her dead at the edge of the yard in some light...
I have recently heard that saving your own open pollinated seeds will, over time, create a better, more hardy plant specific to your typical growing conditions. I am excited about this concept and would love to believe that next year's black krim tomatoes will be happier than this year's (which...
Clementine is the sweet delaware you see here. She is young and healthy and has only been laying for about 6 weeks. She is my most vocal hen, squawks up a storm at us. Yesterday she was less vocal...nobody got verbally assaulted when they were in the yard. This morning I noticed a faint...
How do you use it?
So far I'm just adding the poop/shavings in with my compost. I should probably make a new compost pile now and let that one just cook for spring.
The interweb is making me paranoid that my feathered babies' poopies are going to hurt my green babies if I don't wait long...
Hi Everybody,
I gave the girls a ham bone to clean in their coop and then I gave it to my dog. Seemed like a good idea at the time, seems like a bad one now. I'm worried that their little poopy feet and little poopy bedding will bring salmonella or whatever else into our lives. The other...
....But for $50 I ended up with 14 varieties of veggies, 6 kinds of flowers, and 4 herbs. Fantastic (if they all get here and germinate).
Combined with my leftover/saved varieties from last year and the seeds I got for my birthday, I'm up to over 30 varieties total to tinker with in 2017...
Hi Chicken People!
I've been lurking the forums for quite some time, dreaming of getting chickens. It's finally happened and so naturally I would like some expert insight.
My three lovely girls are a RIR named Rosie who is probably 8-10 months old and two Delawares named Juniper and Clementine...