Search results for query: *

  • Users: ocpoolguy
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. ocpoolguy

    Adding Chicks

    SO! We purchased five baby chicks 2 turned out to be Roos. 3 Chicks grew up and started giving us eggs. We wanted more hens. One of our girls went broody. We went to Trader Joes and purchased a dozen fertile eggs from the refrigerator section let then sit on the counter overnight then slipped...
  2. ocpoolguy

    Rooster?

    Rooster’s We got five baby chicks in January or February I think we may have two roosters. What do you think. The largest one is starting to caca doodle do every morning for the last few days. It’s not super loud but getting louder with time. He-she started this a few weeks ago and it wasn’t...
  3. ocpoolguy

    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    http://s1317.photobucket.com/user/ocpoolguy/media/IMG_0604_zpse6b24c22.jpg.html http://s1317.photobucket.com/user/ocpoolguy/media/IMG_0604_zpse6b24c22.jpg.html Chicken won’t get up. Yesterday Walter the hen we call a him. Was sitting in the run rather then walking around. We just...
  4. ocpoolguy

    Our second try with pet chickens

    This is our second go around with raising chickens as pets and accepting their eggs as gifts. The first time every thing went well with the exception of we spoiled all six of them. We let them have full run of the back yard. They ate the garden, all the grass pooped all over the patio. After we...
  5. ocpoolguy

    Small egg

    weh have 6 hens all have been laying for about one year now. Thanks to everyone that has given all the good information so far. look at what i found this morning. must be from one of the barred rocks named Chance and Sausage by Kimberly our five year old daughter.
  6. ocpoolguy

    I think they are yelling at wash other

    6 hens two laying boxes. We are new got 1 day old chicks at the end of April. Three are now laying and two are very close. It seems to take some time to pass an egg. When the girls are in the box they are in ther for 20-30 minutes. If another needs to lay they will squak LOUD like yelling hurry...
  7. ocpoolguy

    Scared of new feeder.

    Just made a feeder from a five gallon bucket. I have seen them on this site and u-tube. The chickens are so scared they will not go into or even get close to there run. I had them trained when I tap a hockey stick two times it is time to go in the run, there is a treat in there most of the time...
  8. ocpoolguy

    First eggs, a few questions.

    We have five hens or pullets 5 1/2 months old. We got out first egg on Sunday morning found it at about 8:30 AM not sure when it was laid. Monday morning no egg, Monday afternoon found another egg, it came between 2:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon. Tuesday and Wednesday no eggs. Both the eggs...
  9. ocpoolguy

    Stoked

    My first egg on 9-11 on 9-12 we got another. On 9/13 no egg both eggs were not there in the morning but there in the late afternoon. I always thought eggs came in the morning. We should have many to come. We have six chicks in a tract home.
  10. ocpoolguy

    First Egg Pic

    We just laid our first egg. Not sure who laid it. our family is Mom Dad Kimberly and Douglas two Easter Egger's, two Barred Rock's,two Brown Leghorn's, a Lab Emma, Bella the chiuawa and three pollywogs we haven't named yet. its a small egg. so will there be another tomorrow?
  11. ocpoolguy

    Roo or not

    We got six chicks as a family project. They are 18 weeks now. When we got them we were told they were sexed and 95% chance all hens. Today one of them Easter egger was Struting and making a louder that normal rrrrrrrbalk sound repeatedly. I sushed her/him within five minutes it started again. At...
  12. ocpoolguy

    new chicks with a prolbem

    I have posted this in the raising chicks section after the post there I was thinking this may the better place. sorry for the multi posting. we are looking for help don't want a dead chick. Just got home with out first ever chicks. There is a prolbem with one of them she was acting different...
  13. ocpoolguy

    need help ASAP please

    just got home with out first ever chicks. There is a prolbem with one of them she was acting different than the others just moveing different and pecking at her feet. she did have some poop stuck on her near her vent. DW has been reading lots and called it pasty but. She soffened it and wiped it...
  14. ocpoolguy

    our small back yard coop. with pics.

    Our new coop. Our new coop will be 24 inches above the ground mounted on 4X4 treated posts. The posts will be set in concrete. The floor space of the coop in 6 feet long by 42 inches wide or 3 ½ feet. The roof has a 15-degree slope and measures 64 inches on the high side. There is a window on...
  15. ocpoolguy

    Fish heads and stuff.

    I am a fisherman for fun. After cleaning fish should I or could I feed the chickens some of the fish heads and back bones? Pure protien I think. FIY no chickend yet, we want layers building coop soon loking at getting chicks this easter.
  16. ocpoolguy

    the Road?

    Please experts please inform me!! why did the chicken cross the raod? and I am sure the chicken must have come before the egg or there would have never been an egg.
  17. ocpoolguy

    2 chicks 1 hen

    After much time from wife I have agreed to getting chickens in the back yard. I am excited we live in the suburbs and would like to keep it too three hens. Wife wants chicks to come from the Easter bunny cool idea. I would like to get a laying hen to start things off. I am working on coop...
  18. ocpoolguy

    quiet cuite eggers

    May I please have your suggestions with a picture if you have one of some cool looking hens that will be kinda quite and lay good eggs?
  19. ocpoolguy

    Orange County CA in a nice place to live

    can you guess the city "a nice place to live" near surf city
  20. ocpoolguy

    New Bee

    I would do a meat bird or two but the wife thinks it would not be good for the kids or her Girl 4 Boy5 she says the chickens will be like pets. Your take on this please
Back
Top Bottom