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Hi. We recently lost Cutie. Now we have ONE lonely Silkie hen. We are going o get 2 chicks today to keep her company. question One: Do I need to wait the 30 days for germs, etc? Question Two: Can I introduce the chicks to the silkie or must it be 6-8 weeks? Thanks for your support. R

Hi all you lovely folks. Today I harvested beets and carrots from the backyard. I made a salad, but to be honest...they weren't very good. They didn't have a lot of flavor. I was wondering, what can I do to grow carrots that taste sweeter and beets that taste better. Thanks in advance.

Happy all. I believe my baby has the pox. She has some white spots on one side of her comb. What can I do? Can I order some medicine? I want to avoid the vet, since I just spent $1600 on my chickens there two months ago. I have two pet chickens. (Back info...I had 4, 2 died. 1 was an infection...

Well, it's been awhile since I ve been here. Our family is mourning the loss of some chickens. I didn' t know I would be so bummed. I am a new yorker living in LA. City girl all the way. I didn' even want those chickens. But, I fell in love. We lost Fluffy a week ago. Some respiratory infection...

i am so confused. i thought the head hen/hens wanted the highest roost. In our coop we have 3 roosts. A training one for the bantam silkies which is so tiny. A lovely 6 inch high roost for silkies or leghorn X that is 3 feet long. And lastly, a foot high roost with a larger pole that is made...

my 2 hens are being SO mean. they peck me a lot and very hard. luckily this behavior is just to me, not my hubby or child. this behavior is new. i have been their mommy and have spent a lot of time with them. they are 10 months. because of vnd in the area, we built a larger coop/run to ensure...

i have a strange question...could the birds have caused DH's flu? my husband has influenza A. a family member freaked out and said it came from the chickens. we have had these 2 chickens for 8 months with no problem. in addition to that, my hubby has very little contact with them. our bio...

hi all. so it's been about 6 months i've been raising chickens. my supplies have gone from an extra canister of feed to bags of dried crickets in my pantry! HELP! that won't work for me. how do you store your chicken supplies. OCD ideas are very welcome as are anything Martha Stewart fancy! i...

just made these. they are from the molted feathers! they are so cute!!!

hi all. so i tried something different this week. I sold pumpkin pies made with my backyard eggs. It was just a trial...I didn't know if it would be successful or not. IT TOTALLY WAS!!! I sold 3 pies for $15 EACH (i included homemade whipped cream) Each pie had 3 eggs. It was the eggs that...

so I finally got my silkies after waiting toooo long. we got them because they are the friendliest breed. however, ours are frightened by us. we have only had them 2 weeks and handle them every day, but it seems to be getting worse. they actually cry out when we pick them up. i paid big bucks to...

holy guacamole. what a whirl wind. this post is therapeutic for me. i ve been trying to get silkies for months. i had high expectations...npip, females, and for pick up. every where had been out...or super expensive. i finally broke down and sprang for the expensive dna sexed females from a...

i am so happy!!!!! i FINALLY got baby silkies! i tried for months. they sell out to fast. i just purchased them today and will pick them up next week. i already love them. i am so excited i just wanted to share my joy with some people who understand...thanks all. the beautiful blue is Nila &...

well, at least i make myself laugh. so i'm trying to grow these 3 root plants in pots. i watched the videos and did the planting. but nothing-just nothing. AND my ginger turned to mush. i'm in los angeles, so it's still warm in the day, cool in the night. do you have any advice on how to...

i don't know how to explain this well. sorry for the long winded questions. our city allows a 5 chicken maximum, hens only. We have 2. We want 2 more. Because it is such a small limit, I want different breeds. We have an Austra & a leghorn (they are awesome and loving and best friends). I want...

Newbie here. And my hen is a newbie at laying as well. She has only laid 10 total since she started 11 days ago. She has been great! Her eggs are a beautiful color and they are usually the same color and the same size. However, today her egg was small weird-shaped and white. Why did this happen...

So today is the day. It has been 10 years since our family has eaten eggs. My son has NEVER eaten an egg. Our pullet Cutie has laid her first eggs this week. We will be celebrating by making cupcakes with eggs. Chocolate cupcakes.

How eggciting! Thought my son was joking with the fake egg (again). But it was REAL!!!! YAY! There was another crushed egg as well. I thought I checked the box...I guess I was fooled by the fake eggs!!! Lol! Yay for our 1st cream egg!

so very excited... our pullets are 17 weeks. one is red in the face and comb.:fl today at the breakfast table we heard a strange sound from a pullet outside. we froze. then i screamed, "it's the egg song!" we all ran outside to watch our girl sing. she was in the run, so i guess she was just...

i know that to most gardeners this is going to sound funny- in southern california most plants that are annual can be perennials. i find this true for my peppers plants and tomatoes. of course they usually go dormant in the "winter" months and do not produce fruit. once the weather turns around...