this is next to a store bought large egg ...hummm not bad for the 1st egg
I think this was from our BR ... she is the one that squated for me this past week , if so than the younger ones have started before the girls that are 8 weeks older ... go figure ... Im just so glad they started
When I...
My older girls are 26 weeks old white rocks and are still not laying, My younger girls are going to be laying before them at this rate ( they are 18 weeks now, RIR, BR, BA ) Hubby wants to put a frying pan on the wall and for me to tell the girls that something is going in this pan ...
This afternoon I rounded up my older Roo's. (They are headed for freezer camp tomorrow ) There was one that was giving me trouble and I was chasing him around and around the coop, While I was doing that one of my young RIR roo's was following me. I finially cornered him under one of the...
I found my beauty dead this morning with a broken neck. I went out to feed this morning and found her between the coop door and the kickboard. There is a ledge there that the girls love to roost on I just never figured one would fall inbetween it, We have fixed it so no-one will be hurt that...
I just got 5 one week old chicks today, they are 2 black australorps and 3 barred rocks, we will be picking up 6 rhode island reds tomorrow. can I put them in the same brooder?
our older girls are in their coop now ( they are 8 weeks old )
We plan on putting in a divider wall when...
We have started our coop!!!! we are building a 8X12 coop and will be adding a 16x 12 or a 16x16 run ( not sure yet if we are going to build bigger so I can have it attached to my garden with a gate ) this is what we have gotten done so far
Nice big window that will overlook the run
Hubby...
I would like to keep my 3 fir trees inside a covered run, ( I wanted them for shade for the girls ) I wanted to know if I cut 3 holes in the hardware cloth and ran a rubber membrane cone up the tree ( and atached to the tree ) above the roof and attached the rubber to the roof would that keep...