I love my city chickens!
Winifred (EE) (the quiet sweet one)
Charlotte (Australorp) (the independent one)
Edmund (EE) (the down-to-earth, friendly one)
and Oberon! (EE) (the poncy beautiful one)
Hoping for more hens this summer. The boys are SOOOOO lovely, but they are, well, boys. I...
My old chicken tractor was heavy and too small for my expanding flock, and my hens didn't have the sense to get out of the rain.
...Also, my girls need a secure place to sleep now that I have to separate them from the Roos, who get dibs on the nice secure garage coop, as it muffles their crowing...
La Fleche
Black Created by kycklingar!
Breed Information, Comments, and Experience with breed:
Monsieur LaFleche is super friendly. He will sit near you voluntarily, but his wife is more standoffish. He has a very different crow from all the other roosters. My friend says he crows in french...
Hi Nifty!
I have been relatively inactive for the last year, since we moved to Sweden and had to leave our chickies Stateside. But now that we are here and I am caring for some Swedish heritage chickens, I was wondering if you wanted breed pages for them? I don't see these little friends in...
Saint Louis Friends!
One of our young BYC buddies needs our help!
His dad is undergoing brain tumor surgery, and he and his mom are going to have a hard few months ahead of them. But some friends are putting together a craft fair to raise money for the family! If you can come, it's at 6327...
I don't know if your chickens are full grown yet, but I'm also in the city limits and have both a red tail and cooper's hawk in my backyard regularly. The cooper's picked up one of my hens when she was a pullet, and I chased him (didn't take long) until he released her. But now that they are...
I had a separated flock for a long time, and still got the spots in my eggs. At this age, you should definitely have noticed obvious roo behavior if you did have one. I think you're safely out of the water!
My roo crows all hours of the day and night! But here are some tips:
1. Bring each of your neighbors eggs, and ask them if they mind the roo. It's hard to say no then.
2. Plant lots of vegetation, like tall shrubs and hedges - it does a remarkable job of muffling sounds.
3. Keep him in a...
Hi, everybody!
I wondered why it was so quiet for so long, and all of a sudden realized there was a new filtering device on our email servers at work, meaning all updates here never made it to my email!!
Anyway, I have blocks for scrambled, nana, and cedar ridge, and I've PM'd each of you for...
If you sold your TV and invested in a porch swing to watch the chickens?
If you invite your best friends over for "tea and chickens," and that actually means drinking tea on the porch swing and watching the chickens?
If you stopped using your favorite rocking chair because it is now the...