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I just thought that i would share some random happiness and pics of my crew. Here is a pic of my hubby and my son after a good hunt. Here is my daughter. She is sitting in the mitten basket and covered her legs with her favorite blankey. She is a hoot! Here is my cat in the bathroom sleeping...

I didnt think that it could get this hot here. It is about 100 degrees outside. The humidity is what is killing us. Humidity is 62%!! We dont have central air but our window air conditioner is running non stop! My hens are panting and I feel bad for my broody hen sitting in the coop. I just had...

I have a broody hen. Yesterday for some reason one of my buff orps decided to sit on eggs. I may let her have about 10 eggs and then I am going to block her off from the rest. Her nest is on the floor so I wont have to move her. In 21 days, I will have little baby orps running around! Kristyne

I am at a loss as to if I should take my 3 year old son to the ER tonight or wait for urgent care tomorrow morning. At about 8 tonight he came inside from helping his father and he said that he was freezing. It was 80 degrees out! So i took his temp and it was 102.2, I gave him some tylenol and...

Lastnight my 3 year old lab/springer mix got off his chain and went after my chickens. I was not home so I didnt see it. My roo must have defended his girls becasue the only feathers on the lawn were Reds beautiful hind feathers. The girls seem unharmed and are a little scared. Red is crabby...

I just had to tell someone how excited I am! Early this week I ordered some chicken supplies. I ordered some wooden eggs since my hens dont like the easter eggs that I put in the nest boxes. I also got some blu-kote so that i can finally spray the back of one of my poor hens. She keeps pulling...

One of our posters and my friend Judymae is currently at home suffering from food poisoning. She got it from a bad hamburger. Makes me think twice about eating out! Get well Judy! Kristyne

Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome website and Congrats on 3000 members!!!! Kristyne

Here are some random shots of my chicken family members. Red sitting on my sons little wagon. My favorite girl, Princess. She is a silver laced Cochin Princess as a little chick Some of the other babies Partridge Rock and Princess. Buff Brahmas Silkies and a Delaware Partridge rock...

So we have been frantically trying to get the new coop done so that we could move the 14, 4 week old chicks out of the house. Well on saturday, I discovered that they had picked the feathers on the lower back part of one of my Brahmas, above the tail. So I separated her with one of the nicest...

I am up looking at other peoples chickens on here. I am hopelessly addicted! I should be sleeping but I am totally not tired. I had a long stressful day. Kristyne

Ok so over the last few days we have lost 2 pheasants and now we have 3 more that arent doing so well. They have been picked at and I think it is because they become less active than the others. Well we isolated them in a smaller brooder and I noticed that there was a very dark watery poop in...

There is no obvious signs of injury, other than th peck marks from th other phesants. will drink ocassionally. i gave it sugar water, as i have nothing else. It is still moving and breathing. I made a mash out of baby oatmeal and water. Is there anything else that I can do for it? Kristyne I...

Hi, My husband has phesants comming any day now and I was wondering if they need the heat the same temp as chicks. They will be in the coop in a separated section in a brooder. I was just wondering how hot we will have to keep it in there. Is there anything else special that I would need to...

Can anyone with cold weather post pics of your coops. My DH and I know that we need a coop that is 8x10 at least in size but I dont know about overall design of it. Any cold weather tips? What about ventilation? Nest boxes? We live in Northern Minnesota and it gets really cold here. Like -40 for...

Ok so I went on Amazon.com and got some books about chickens and one about how to build chicken coops. I did some reading lastnight and it was very informative. Storey's guide to raising chickens is wonderful, thanks for all the good advice to pick up that book. Everyone on here has been...

Ok So i dont have pics yet but I will post them today when the kids are napping! My babies are here. I am trying to figure out which one was the packing chick. I know that one of my partridge rocks died, so i only have 3 of them. I have 3 delawares, they are yellow so that isnt hard to figure...

OK so i pick up my chicks and I get them home and then I turn around (with my 2 kids in tow) and go back to town at 8 am to pick up my chick feed that I had especially ordered for me. THEY SOLD IT! To someone else, of course! So the guy was going to the other store to get another bag so my...

OK I have 3 hens and I finally got them to lay their eggs in the house. One hen seems terribly teritorial of any nest. does this mean that she is going broody? there are now 5 eggs in the nest and none of the hens are sitting on it almost all day, should i remove the eggs? Should I let it be? Is...

My husband wants to raise phesants so I let him order some and they will be here on the 2nd of June. Now I am being told that each bird (30) will need "blinders" so that they dont kill eachother. Can someone give me more information on this and if they need them, where do I find them? I looked...