Search results for query: *

  1. semillion2

    Ended Official BYC Contest: 260,000 BYC Members? Guess the DAY & HOUR and Win!!!

    They are Cuckoo Marans I have one:=]
  2. semillion2

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Usually four eggs a day. Collected three this morning and occasionally I get five. Not bad for brutal cold temperatures and Winter.
  3. semillion2

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Two weeks worth of eggs from my four hens. Two Americauna's, blue/ green eggs, names Biscuit and Gravy, (No you cannot eat them) one Rhode Island Red named Pete (named after Dad who had awesome sense of humour) and a Silver Cuckoo Maran, Pheonix (Our cranky old lady) speckled tan....just waiting...
  4. semillion2

    Chickens and snow

    Thankyou for your reply and support. My hubby does not like to place a tarp around the coop, last time he removed it and said, "They are Chickens they be all right". It was snowing like crazy that day. Out Chicken tractor has an upstairs where the nesting boxes are, so they go downstairs to eat...
  5. semillion2

    Chickens and snow

    Hi I was wondering what weather is too cold to let my chickens out of the coop. A couple of days ago we got a huge snow storm and the chickens now have been in the coop for two days. Some of the snow has melted away today. Should I let them out it is above zero. They also have a heat lamp that...
  6. semillion2

    Chickens and other birds

    Hi! A couple of days ago a Partridge turned up out of no where and decided to hang out with my Chickens. Last night he sleep in the coop with the Chickens on their roost. "Is there any harm in letting him hang out with the Chickens?". He seems to have been owned by someone, he is not afraid of...
  7. semillion2

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Usually two a day now. One from the Silver Cuckoo Maran, a white one and one from my Americauna, a blue one....all I need is a red one and be real patriotic! "Get it?' Had a Partridge this morning hang out with the Chickens, I think they call them Quackars here in North America. Saddly my...
  8. semillion2

    Purchasing chicks

    Next Spring I am going to get some Australorpes from IFA Country Store, maybe even an incubater.
  9. semillion2

    Australorps breed Thread

  10. semillion2

    Egg Bound and Failing

    I have recently lost my hen to being egg bound I tried for hours to save her. I tried the warm bath method soaking her behind and massage. This morning I read a brief, extremely brief comment that stated that "Liquid Calcuim for egg bound Chickens" and that was all it said. "What I would like to...
  11. semillion2

    Australorps breed Thread

    She is Beautiful! They also have the most wonderful personality, plus a very hardy bird.
  12. semillion2

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I am PROUD to report today our FIRST Blue egg from our Americauna. Our Cuckoo Maran is still laying one a day, so now that makes two out of Four hens.
  13. semillion2

    Is it to early to guess a gender?

    They say Chickens start laying at 2o-24 weeks, I am still waiting for my Americauna's to lay eggs and they are the same age. Plus, I also put it down to the changing season,(Fall) less light and cooler conditions maybe. Out of four hens I get one day egg a day
  14. semillion2

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    One out of four pullets! Wonder when there will be anymore????
  15. semillion2

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I just lost my hen to a Hawk. It is heart breaking to lost another Chicken. I have lost one Rooster and two hens in month. I have Cooped up the rest of the three hens and Rooster today. "How long should I coop them up before the Hawk loses interest?" I have three baby pullets coming in October...
  16. semillion2

    Comment by 'semillion2' in article 'Deciding To Free Range Your Flock'

    I just lost my hen to a Hawk. It sickens me to the core. Our Rooster did not protect the hens, went the other direction! I free-range our Chickens. But sometimes I think at what cost. This is the second Chicken I have lost to a predator. I have lost three Chickens in a space of a month, one...
  17. semillion2

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    At the moment one...but we are going into Fall and we did lose one hen. We currently have four hens, two Easter Eggers that have never laided and two that are regulars. One of the regulars has stopped laying, think she maybe molting. We did get three eggs a day over Summer. Heard Austrolthorpes...
  18. semillion2

    How do you heat your coops

    Love your reply Vicki!" "Awesome!" Yep not all of us are lucky to live South of the border Gee, I can only imagine the cold freezing conditions in Northern Wisconsin, as in Utah we get brutal Winters, cold conditons that last up to seven months! We have a heat lamp that is securely mounted to...
  19. semillion2

    How do you heat your coops

    We heat our Chicken Coop for the Winter with a infra Red Lamp that puts out heat. The Winters in Utah can be brutal dropping a slow as minus 22c, 18f with snow and bone cutting wind. We keep them in the coop when the conditions are bad. Also the light is on a timer, it does not run all the time.
  20. semillion2

    Share your pictures of Dust/Dirt Baths

    Here is my Chickens having a dirt bath. Since then Frair Tuck the Rooster, Austrolthorpe and the two by them selves have gone. But we have three Austrolthorpes coming, and a new Rooster.
Back
Top Bottom