***Added pics****Sorry, I'll have to add pictures later, I haven't been able to get a good picture of Mary (Marty?) yet. Anyway, I got him/her at 3-4 weeks old and she had no pink/red color at all to her comb at all. She's 6-7weeks old now and has lost all of the yellow/orange to her comb...
I'm so excited that this is almost finished. With the exception of cutting the floor boards, I did this all by myself! I picked up this little tikes playhouse for $20 on craigslist. I've been working on it little by little over the past 3 weeks. I have less than $50 in it, including the...
I picked up a little tikes playhouse coop from craiglist (cheap). I have everything figured out I think, except for these gaps at the corners where the walls meet and join. There is a 2-3" gap where the pieces hook together. I can cover them with hardware cloth, but I wonder if that will be...
For the past week or so, my girls have been going through more than twice as much food during the day. In the morning, I let them out to free range and the coop stays open, so I thought maybe they were sharing with another critter (chipmunk maybe?). I tested that out the other day by not...
Some background...our flock is 3 hens. 2 mixed LF and 1 bantam cochin. The bantam, Angus (yes, Angus is her name lol), has been broody twice already this spring. She's right at a year old and started laying around 9 months old. The first time, I finally broke her broodiness after 3 nights in...