She came with my order of Salmon Favorolles...but is clearly not a Salmon Favorolle...any ideas????? (Her leg isn't really twisted...just a funny shot)
Think 100 years ago, I bet chickens age slugs and snails by the pound.
Funny story about my dog. Long before I had chickens, I used to put shallow containers filled with beer in my garden and yard as a way to control slugs. As you may know, slugs are attracted to beer, crawl into the...
My local feed store sells chicken scratch in the poly bags, the bags are a translucent white and I've saved enough to recover my greenhouse .....they have worked perfectly!
My bantam cochin roo took to the babies immediately, clucked and fussed over them....the girls however were not very hospitable. Pretty much wanted them dead....
I am reading through my Story's Illustrated Guide to chickens. The info on Jersey Giants also lists a bantam variety.
Anybody out there have these?
Also, I ordered standard speckled sussex chicks, but this guide shows a bantam variety also, anybody out there have bantam sussex?
Just passing along info. This sight allows a minimum order of 15 chicks, I believe Mcmurray requires 25. I did not need or want 25 chicks, so this sight is good for people who want less chicks, plus free shipping made it a good deal for me. If Mcmurray works for you price and chick wise, go for it!
I found their website 2 years ago, and have ordered from the for the past 2 years, all bantams. This year I've ordered standards. Got a bee in my bonnet for speckled sussex and faverolles. Of course I'm also getting bantam faverolle eggs later in the Spring...
Heard a big commotion, run out down my deck stairs, hear chicken screams from under the stairs. There was a hawk on my little bantam hen. I covered the stairs with my body, got my hen out and there's the hawk, flapping and flailing. We looked each other in the eye for a moment and I got up and...