Winters here are windy and rainy, with a damp coldness that seeps into your bones even on a "dry" day. Everything turns brown to match the mud and the six hours of daylight we're meant to get around the solstice are often lost behind heavy grey skies. My chickens are pretty hardy but they tend...
People bumping old threads because they maybe found them through a search and didn't notice the last post was years ago (and often the person they're replying to hasn't been online since) seems to be quite a common issue.
Another board I post on uses this xenforo add-on. It doesn't stop people...
I don't mind it here. Post something off-topic, post a chicken picture as "tax". It's a nice excuse to share my photos or see other people's.
But I've just been charged chicken tax in an actual, offline, IRL bricks-and-mortar shop.
Realised when I hatched a couple of chicks at the weekend that...
I just bought a Nestera coop (the medium lodge) as a temporary measure because I'm having issues getting the materials I need to fix up the more appropriate housing I'd planned to use. I wasn't expecting it to be perfect for the climate here but I thought it would do at this time of year and I...
Starting a thread to keep most of my observations and ramblings in one place. I want to have a record to help me remember things but hopefully some of this will end up being useful, interesting or at least entertaining for others.
I do a bit of farm work, so I'm not new to chickens, but I...
Today my previously calm and friendly three week old chicks have decided I'm actually the devil incarnate. Maybe it's a hormonal/developmental stage thing; maybe it's because I didn't take them outside yesterday (the weather was vile and I had more chicks hatching); maybe it's because I gave...