I really appreciated the feed back. They all but the bantam was there last night. When i got home i drove to the back and couldn't find them but my son came running in a dusk and said they are all in the barn! thanks!
I need any advice on my buffs that are about 3 months old and 1 bantam same age. Most of my chickens free roam on the property except at night. We call them and lock them up. The 8 buff's started going to the back pasture further and further. Yesterday when we call 5 of them and 1 bantam was...
I have a Great Pyenese puppy. So far I've had very good luck training him. I've been having a coon problem so the feed mill told me about the GP puppies they had for sale. So I bought one. He did want to play with the chickens 1st but I remember scolding him really one good time and never...
I left maybe 5-6 inches on top of a 14 foot barn roof wired with chicken wire and heavy duty staples. 3 raccoons got in by pulling the wire loose on 3 corners and killing over 1/2 of my flock and were gone the next morning. I can't understand how they can get in and then find there way out and...
Had them all locked up and secure by night time back into the pens except for the batams that are on the roof! Counted all this morning at day light and all is well. I let them back out into the barn. I will do the same tonight but i'm still scared to walk around the barn it just gives me the...
Hello ya'll - here is how it all started. Just started with chickens in December or 2009 so we're just learning the first summer or some terrible terrible predators and god knows what else. 1st of all I had notice my eggs when I'd go to pick in the evening that they were cracked and the yoke...
Bantams are Jack, Cowboy, Golden Girl, Crow, Spitball, Star, Blue Girl and Goldie
Orphingtons are King Rex, Sky Walker, Big Momma, Iris, Baby Orph, Mamae
Silkies are Big Foot, Tar Baby, Tarzan, Jane, Momma, Papa and baby Bear
Cochins are Godfather, Little Man, Zulu, Rose, Sassy and we haven't...
I just started a little over a month ago raising chickens. I have some silkies that lay under a stand in the corner on the ground. I kinda made a tunnel in there. I also have one silkie that lays in a big dog crate. there is the other pen they lay in a milk crate box and one in the corner on...
Hello everyone, I have been checking out BYC for a little over a month. Just found it while surfing the net. Well I joined and here I am and finally had sometime to introduce myself.
How did we become new to chickens? Well....My neighbors took a trip last summer and asked us to feed the...