I have a weirdo unidentified banty. She was a year old in April-ish. She had layed for about 6 months. Not extremely regularly, maybe every other day, or every 3 days....but she layed. Then at mid summer she went broody and stopped laying. She hasn't started laying again. Being that she's...
On Wednesday, I read a Facebook post from a friend of mine, the school nurse at my kids' school. She had free peeps. Apparently, there was an Ag in the Classroom presentation, and the peeps came from a big production chicken farm. Which, of course means that the babies couldn't go back to the...
I've had my Red Stars for about a year and a half now, and have sailed through without a single problem. No chicken coop problems, no predator problems, no illnesses, no trouble adding to the flock. Until now. And I'm panicing. One of my girls wouldn't eat this morning. She was standing in...
I have 5 Red Stars. They live in a small insulated doghouse coop with an attached run. The door to the coop stays open at night except for on super crazy windy nights, I run up there and close the door. Today the kids had the chickens out, and noticed that their legs (one in peticular) had some...
So I started in the spring with a simple (and free) doghouse coop. I have recently aquired a new (also free) playhouse that will be awesome once I can get the old girl to the back yard and fixed up. So tell me, WHY am I curious about this:
[email protected]
I'm about to...
My daughter, my son and our neighbors son were hanging out with the chickens tonight, and digging up worms. I thought it was pretty important to run for the camera........
Anybody else have jumping chicken pics?
A friend and myself took our kids for a hike today and we happened by an old, clearly unused playhouse. My friend convinced me that it couldn't hurt to ask, so I knocked on the door of the house and the owner of the house said I could HAVE the playhouse! Her boys were grown, and I'm welcome to...
I have a 5 RIRs and one Belgian D' Anver hen. We got the Belgian in the middle of May. She was so teensy, but already had feathers on her wings. She was given to my kids from a "petting zoo" at a local celebration, so we don't know how old she was. I don't know anything about their egg-laying...
We built our coop and run in the spring when it was warm and beautiful out. As added shade and rain protection, we took a few scrap boards and made a platform just outside of the coop.As soon as the girls could fly, that's where they started sleeping, because it is higher than the roosts in...