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This last tornado threat had me running around clearing out my pantry, laundry, and bath areas to secure all my animals, then I turned around to see all my hens up against the patio door, sheltering from the pelting rain! Oh no! What do I do about my girls? I have a nice secure storage shed for...

This last tornado threat had me running around clearing out my pantry, laundry, and bath areas to secure all my animals, then I turned around to see all my hens up against the patio door, sheltering from the pelting rain! Oh no! What do I do about my girls? I have a nice secure storage shed for...

Here is a pdf I'm hoping will upload that identifies and gives remedies for bugs that get on your hens. http://www.portec.com.au/images/lecture23.pdf this has photos of bugs and was very helpful.

Just went shopping for mister ideas--home depot here is out of mist appliances so we went next to Northern Tool off I20 & Great SW Pky. Got a cool (literally) mister attachment that zip ties onto a fans wire front for 12 smackers! Bought their small black wire front fan for 29, and walked out...

Just went shopping for mister ideas--home depot here is out of mist appliances so we went next to Northern Tool off I20 & Great SW Pky. Got a cool (literally) mister attachment that zip ties onto a fans wire front for 12 smackers! Bought their small black wire front fan for 29, and walked out...

Just a note dictated to me by your feathered children to say how much they appreciate your loving care and protection. They want to give you a big "peck" on the cheek if they could! Consider yourself loved today and any eggs you find are a special gift from your loving girls! Happy Chickey...

It was just so pretty and cute, thought I'd share the picture. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=227962260551233&set=a.202124663134993.58692.100000123818503&type=1&theater

what can I do? They must hurt her as she is limping on that foot. I have tried doctoring them with mercuricrome and pain creame at night so she might sleep good, but next morning I find her with the feather stumps that have bled. Suggestions welcome! I have tried to bandage the foot to keep...

May 2010 The Coop Newsletter May has brought us a foster dog, Reggie, a 2-year-old part pitt and part lab mix to train and befriend on Mother’s Day. Our 14-year-old Boston, Rocky, had finally ended his days and I guess the daughter felt another set of floppy ears would help us out of...

April 2010 The Coop Newsletter April still feels like March with winds and weekly rain. The girls have come to terms with the wind blowing them over every so often and as long as the temps are around 70-ish, the rain doesn’t bother them either. Egg production is iffy still and I’m...

Does this happen? We haven't gotten eggs from her in years. Now I must say that i did not see her lay the egg. she was just dozing on the patio and we saw her wake up, stand up and see the egg. When she poked it with her beak, it broke. Then her silkie pal, Hilda came over and they were...

January 2010 The Coop Newsletter This January in Texas have seen historic lows and so have the girls’ morale. That translates into No Eggs. The only fun the girls have had is to be let out to play some days when the temperature climbed above freezing. Frozen water containers were...

December 2009 The Coop Newsletter Well the weather immediately turned from cool to downright freezing as soon as December began. Unfortunately, for the girls, that meant being ‘cooped up’ in the Chickey house till things thawed outside. Camping again? Early this month, we were off at...

Well, winter has finally struck her in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and I am keeping chickeys warm fine in the storeroom where they sleep with a little ceramic heater that can keep it about 40 today. I have let them out to eat their morning seed in the sun and poured warm water in the frozen water...

or are they? I have had three friends and my dad turn down my (free) eggs. I'm not sure that the friends even eat eggs so there might be that, but I know my dad (bred in the country) eats eggs. He says he doesn't eat many eggs anymore, but won't even take home 6. 1. We collect and wash the...

August 2009 The Coop Newsletter The heat continues this month minus most of the rain, but the girls don’t seem to mind now that they have the pools. The new silkies are doing great and now each type of bird has their own group to talk to when not clucking to the whole gang. Gerty and...

July 2009 The Coop Newsletter The heat in the 100s has continued here at the Coop since the end of June and the girls are not happy. Egg production has slowed until it is a surprise to find one. We can wait. Meanwhile, the girls have been happy cooling their feet in the shallow plant...

Wouldn't it be warmer in winter to have the coop on the ground? I don't think any of the coops I have seen advertised are insulated, don't they need to stay a little warm in winter??? What do most people use to heat/cool coops like the kit or pre-built kind?

I have had two hens die within two years of a swollen abdomen and apparent pasty butt, and now have found out that it was constipation. Is there a way to help hens not get this! I've just buried my first chickey--henrietta--and want to figure out how i can prevent this from taking my sweeties...

Just wanted to say I have added two new Mille Fleurs to our flock--actually they are being kept seperate until they are clucky--still a little chirpy--so they will be treated more as pals. My Millie hen was interested a time or two, but the newbies immediately wanted her to be Mommy and she was...