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I have a small flock of super healthy, free ranged Swedish Flower Hens. Folks have been getting great hatch rates on shipped eggs from my birds (though due to variations in USPS handling and the uncertainties associated with incubators, I can not guarantee what your hatch rates will be). None...

I keep small, healthy flocks of Swedish Flower Hens and Dark Cornish. They are fed Fermented Feed and checked over regularly for health and condition. I rotate my flocks and each free ranges at least 5 hours a day on a large farm. None of my SFHs have split wings (a common fault in this...

The purpose of this thread is to share "Recipes" for all natural remedies for Chicken health issues. Please post one "recipe" per post - and post as many as you like!! Requirements: Recipes must be ones you have USED... and ones that you know work. Please do NOT post random recipes found...

This will be a thread dedicated to natural, chemical free chicken keeping. The "rules" are simple (for now). Rule #1: Everyone has different ways of doing things - Please... we don't want to get into any "I'm right, you're wrong," stuff here. Rule #2: Share for the sake of sharing - good...

A few days ago, Inga, one of my Swedish Flower Hen pullets - about 16 weeks of age - started limping. I brought her in to the mud room in our house and put her in a huge dog crate with a sweet cockerel who is very bonded to her. The cockerel had been limping just a bit too, so I figured it...

Batten down the hatches... "Frankenstorm" is going to be moving up the East Coast and nobody knows exactly what will happen or who will get hit the hardest. While my own area is fairly safe, we will be going from a week in the 80's to a possible snow storm, so I'll be doing a bit of...

July 30, 2012 started like any other day. By 2:00 p.m. the three cream-colored eggs all had pips, and by 10:00 p.m. three tiny Swedish Flower Hen chicks lay, panting, within the warm incubator. Thus begins the ongoing saga of The Swedish HenHouse Sister-Wives of P. County! The three, fluffy...

Market your farm or product with a custom, hand painted sign or dress up your coop or your kitchen! There are so many uses for these beautiful, high quality indoor/outdoor signs. I can fully customize these signs to fit your needs - anything from large, heavy wood farm signs to be hung by your...

Just thought I'd share some pictures of my daughter, our 4 keets and one young roo. My kid really has a way with birds - LOL! Pretty sure we have 2 Pearl Grey keets, but can someone help me with the color of the lighter ones? Here's a good baby picture of the darker of the two lighter...

All these chicks are 3 - 4 days old. Try out your wing-sexing skills by weighing in here. Once these babies start laying or crowing, I'll post the results (and you can having bragging rights if you were correct)! 4 day old Black Orpington 4 day old Blue Sizzle 4 day old Swedish Flower...

So before our birds start free-ranging I wanted to "chicken-proof" our bulldog, Brandy. Brandy is a registered Autism Service Dog and is very sweet, but even so, one can never be too careful when the newest pets smell a lot like dinner! I started by letting Brandy sniff the chick and keets and...

I'm really excited. Went to pick up 4 keets and ended up with the impulse buy of a Mille Fleur Cochin chick... who we have all totally fallen in love with! Of course this morning we had to have a photo shoot - you can see the pictures Here!

Ever see a stranger and make up a whole story about them in your head? Well here's your chance to make up funny, interesting and even verbose stories about one of the last 3 people to post before you. For instance: I imagine Player 1234 once fell asleep on a giant banana while in Guam and...

Once upon a time there was a nice, large chicken coop under a beautiful shade tree... And then our part of Virginia was unceremoniously slammed with a giant wind storm which blew the tree over and onto the coop... smashing it to oblivion. The good news: No chickens were living in the...

Hello everyone! I just joined today. I'm the expectant "mom" to chicks (all pullets) that will be arriving via mail the week of July 9th. I can't wait! Although we live in town now, we're moving at the end of July to a large farm that already has a nice, large chicken coop just behind the...