Long story.. but I was away on vacation for 3 weeks and had someone chicken-sit for me. One of the doors in the rear of the coop was some how opened by the chickens (probably one of the chickens fell off a perch and in trying to hang on put pressure on the door and popped the latch and opened...
An animal has been waiting patiently for my electric coop door to open every morning (and a few times during sunset) and killing my hens. There may have been a hole in my run-fence. I installed surveillance cameras. I first thought it might be a raccoon that was killing my hens. But I caught...
ok my hens are covered in bugs... tiny red ones, black ones.
I did the Flea and Tick dip wash for my birds and then I will cover everything in wood ash. Here's my friend helping me wash Goldie, a Golden Wyandotte.
or am I the only crazy one?
I had an oil painting on canvas done when I visited Vietnam (they are famous for their oil paintings). This is a painting of my rooster (a Cochin) when he was young.
I had quite a crazy day yesterday. To date I have raised all my chickens from purchased day old chicks that I raise in a brooder. Recently, one of my hens became broody. Enter Harriet, Hen #1.
During this time, other hens would lay their eggs in her nest box so eventually she was sitting on a...
I have a newborn (maybe 3-4 days old) that has been injured by another hen. I didn't see what happened. The injury looks really bad. The skin/fur on the top of the head has been pulled all the way back so there's a good inch of flesh showing. The entire scalp area is showing flesh. Yikes. I...
Rocky, my barred Rock hen, has been very lethargic the past week. I do have a problem with my flock with chicken lice and today I gave them all a bath (vinegar, salt, dish detergent recipe I learned on here). I noticed when I was rinsing her off she has a really bad skin problem on her rear...
Is it normal to be finding dinosaur sized eggs once in awhile? I have been finding large double yoked eggs over the past month but what I found today just shocked me. This egg looked like a goose egg and when I put it in a carton made for large sized eggs, the top can't even close it's...
Goldie, as pictured, decided from day one that she did not want to lay her eggs in the prescribed nest box or even somewhere in the run. She decided another more suitable location in my garden was a better spot. If she happens to be IN the fenced run, she will fly over the run's 8foot fence (I...
Need to come up with a name for the nameless. She looks like some kind of a mutt mix.
Snow White and Teriyaki are EEs and Goldie is a Golden Wyandotte.
Here's a larger pic: http://www.screencast.com/users/joe128pack/folders/Jing/media/1d483147-6b2b-44d2-b19c-07aaafde2aa7
First time venturing into the world of meat birds. Happened by accident actually. I tried giving away my 4.5 month old barred rock roos but no one would take them. After a week of being awakened by the roos starting to crow (sometimes at 3am???), I decided to put an end to it this weekend.
My...