Pro's: They are the best busy bodies I know and far more fun to be around!
How could anyone not love seeing 6 feathered weeble woobles running to you at the sound of your voice?
Cons: I don't like that my dogs see them as lunch
One of my dogs just got a hold of my chicken and plucked most the feathers and has a couple of wounds. What can I put on her to protect her skin and wounds? She is a layer. We will not be eating her. Please any advice.
This is lovely! My thoughts are to go with red but can you picture that with my coop? I thought of another color for the door or just painting around the moon (over the color of the door) to make it stand out more.
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Well my new coop arrives tomorrow! We will seal the inside with Thompson's water seal and paint the outside. Here is where all of you come in. I see SO MANY awesome paint designs and color on your coops that I am looking for YOU to help me choose a color and something fun to...
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They all are doing wonderful!! They are about 5 or 6 weeks old now. Our mystery chick looks like it is a Ameraucana. She looks like a young hawk! Just a gorgeous chick! I am so loving having chickens that my neighbor decided she would get some too!
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Thank you everyone for the kind greetings! Yes, I indeed have them. Oh my are they active little things. I feel like a new mom again! We have them in a huge box with shavings in a warm room and those little boogers are so active. We put our hand in there with some crushed up dried meal worms...
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I get my first ever chicks tomorrow . I will be getting 3 Black Australorps, 3 Buff Orpingtons, and 1 mystery chick! Besides getting them as pets we are getting them to keep the bug population down. I have seen how they break down horse droppings and keep flies from...