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Earlier this spring I noticed some carpenter ants coming in one of our bedroom windows. I tried DE and eventually resorted to spraying with Ortho Home Defense to keep them out of the house. I have not seen anymore in the house since then. Now, the pool is up and in full use for the summer...

My girls have just recently figured out the ladder going into the coop from the run. Our weather is going to be iffy with showers off and on the next couple of days. I hate to leave them in the coop all day long if it is only going to rain a few minutes and then stop for an hour or two. I just...

I have no clue how you guys pick smileys and stuff for the board, if they cost money to add or anything of that nature. BUt I was just reading posts this morning and Gindee77 has the CUTEST little smiley doing the chicken dance as her avatar! I using these things when I'm posting replys and...

Or do they ever? My chicks are 4 weeks old now and if I sneak to the brooder at any given hour of the night there is still a 50/50 chance I'll peep in and see someone peeping back or maybe even an all out chick party going on at the feeder. When, if ever, do chickens begin to sleep through the...

I can't believe my girls are 3 weeks old now. It seems like they have been here forever and then again it seems like I posted yesterday about brooder temps and how best to harass the post office into calling me the minute my chicks got there. Sigh.... they grow so fast! Anyway, the girls...

My babies got spoiled to getting outside time 4 days in a row. I swear when it rained they had little droopy faces just like human kids. To entertain them DD decided to give them a new toy. She threw in a fuzzy pom pom from her craft things. It has glittery strands and the silver and golden...

Or stopped using them at least. My chicks are now 16 days old and it was such habit to wash their waterer every morning, rinse the marbles I had in there and put it all back together. This morning it finally dawned on me that I didn't need the marbles in there anymore. This realazation came...

...anymore. Since you guys are having so much fun playing with names the past few days can I request a change? I would like my user name to change to Texas Fluffy Feet. Thanks mods in advanced if it can be changed!

I have 5 cochins who will have a very nice 15'x8' run attached to their coop when it is all finished out. There is grass in part of the run area but I know with 5 sets of fluffy feet scratching it won't be there for long. I am wondering about what to put down in the run once the grass is gone so...

I know I read somewhere on here in the vast numbers of posts and information on how plain yogurt with live cultures mixed with chick starter made such a great first treat for chicks. my little ones definitely know what food is so since they are stuck indoors in the brooder due to icky weather I...

This little girl is supposed to be a standard red cochin. She is now 9 days old and I have thought from the get go that she isn't looking very red. She came from Ideal and I looked at their site and can't match her to anything there! She has a black stripe coming in on her wings along with what...

I have a total of 5 chicks who are now 9 days old. They have had the pleasure of being able to spend the past couple of afternoons outdoors since the temps have been near 80 or above. For their 1 week birthday they also graduated to pine shavings in their brooder. This morning I saw them all...

My babies will be a week old tomorrow. Today it is absolutely goregous out. The temp is almost 80 and it is nothing but sunshine. I decided to take the babies out for a few minutes to let them enjoy the pretty day too. I used a transport cage I have for small animals since our coop and run is...

Brand New Chicks! Got my peeps this A.M. 5 Healthy happy little standard cochin girls. As you can see they found the food pretty fast... And the water... As soon as I got home with my peeping box from the post office I went straight to DD's room and woke her up to see them. She wanted to...

I have chicks from Ideal supposed to ship today, I know they will call me to tell me they shipped, at least I think they will these are my first chickies. Anyone else have some coming? Have you gotten your call yet? I'm trying to keep myself busy while I am waiting, my house is looking REALLY...

I have my brooder set up in the garage which is not climate controlled. There is no way I can get it in the house- it won't go through any of the doors. My babies will be here in a couple of days so I am test running it now. Yesterday it was in the upper 70's all day here and in fact it was...

DD had offered up her playhouse to be our chicken coop when we finally decided to get the chicks this year. After more research we decided it would not be the best shelter for them and opted for DH to build something. DD REALLY wanted to use her playhouse for the chickens so I turned it into a...

This topic may have been more appropriate for the Emergencies/ Diseases forum, but with all the really sickly chicken posts over there I thought maybe having these questions answered here would benifit some of the other newbies like me too who are getting ready for their first babies to arrive...

We will be building our coop for a group of all standard sized Cochins. I was wondering, since they will be such nice round ladies when they grow up if they would be more comfortable with lower nesting boxes and roosts. I read somewhere that the heavy breeds don't tend to try to fly up to much...

My chicks will ship next Wednesday from Ideal. I know they will be here Thursday because I have already talked to a postal supervisor ( one of my Customers DH's) who let me know it is a straight shot from Cameron to Fort Worth or Dallas and then over to Arlington which is smack dab between the...