We just hatched our first chick yesterday. I’m so with you on this. I call my husband who is a home this weekend because of hatching day, 5 times so far today. I’m at camp 100miles away. It’s driving me bonkers! I work here so I can’t run home to “nothing happening”.
I’ve read this 3 times and it still makes me smile and laugh like a crazy person. Thank you for the good reading. Another time or 2 and I’ll know it by heart.
I had one Silkie broody for 2 months finally got her some fertile 21 days later she’s a momma. Now 2 more girls are due to hatch this weekend. Monkey See Money Due!
I feel very fortunate, (we can’t have them in our neighborhood), I have a friend who has a farm himself and works at a auction house. So he takes them, he either keeps them or takes them to auction. I’m just relieved to not have to cull them myself.
I love the 3 snap an locks, I’ve had the first one for 3 yrs now. Live in MA. Each has 3 roosts and 4 nesting boxes. The ladies only sleep an lay their eggs in them. poop trays slide out so they get cleaned pretty much everyday. We do the deep litter method in the pen, clean out is in the...
My Silkies have their own coop and pen. My big girls have 3 coops and a pen as well as a yard to play in. We started with 8 chicks, then had to re-home 5 boys, so thought my first coop would be enough. . never heard of “chicken math”. Bought another coop. Met a woman who asked if I could...
I have 2 coops that I bought from Formax snap an lock. We built a pen between them. I bought 1 but wanted more chickens. I live in MASSACHUSETT, ive had them 3 years Very happy with them. There is another company that sells similar with attached run. I also now have a child’s playhouse for my...
I have 7 small dogs, they love going out with the chickens, but they are supervised visits. The chickens aren’t afraid of them because they will walk right into house if back door is open and eat out of dog food bowls at same time as dogs. But the dogs are animals and I will not take a chance...
When I was young (more than 50yrs ago) I heard a terrible sound, thought it was a child screaming, we lived on a lake with lots of young families. I went running out looking for it 5:00am. It’s was cats, fighting or in heat. I was not happy to be woke up!