Great read. So thankful all my birds are slow molter's. I have never noticed any of them looking bare.
I had one I thought was molting. Looked scary. Then I found out it was from sexual abuse by my neighbor's duck. Shortly after foxes got him Ruby started looking like herself again.
Oops!
Sorry, I am new to this area. I only just moved here in 1989. So I don't know where I am...lol
It's actually called "Five Rivers area"...
Dumb @#$
Are you not in a place that you can free range at all.
I use All Flock now that my pullets are over ten weeks. Actually I mixed what was left with my new bag of AllFlock.
All flock costs me about $17.00 a fifty pound bag. My ten girls and one rooster used to eat about five six pounds a week...
I just found out unexpectedly that I am NOT going to be rehoming any chickens. Three or four of the ones I want to re-home are apparently off limits, and all previous contracts, deals, and or treaties are null and void.
I knew my wife tends to make a pet of every animal she comes into contact...
Apparently my wife and I have taken this whole bonding with the hens a step to far.
Recently, say the last five or six days, I have been extra busy with indoor chores, and not getting outside till around maybe 9:am or so.
Apparently some of my girls don't like that, and have decided to remind me...
My flock has figured out their own snacks. I give them pretty much all the food scraps and a large comercial snack block.
But they really seem to prefer fresh
" pick your own" garden vegetables.
Especially tomatoes, squash and cantaloupe.
I enjoyed the article. Lots of good info.
I was thinking though how fortunate I was to have tamed all my birds just by the fact I am in the yard with them most of the day every day.
But I am noticing it is a two edged sword. On one hand it feels sweet that they like following me around. But when...
I guess I should have spent some time looking at y'all's chicken coops.
I don't remember noticing that small door.
My coop is 21" off the ground but has a 54" wide by 60" h door. I had a ramp because someone said my bigger girls should have one.
So far none of the chickens use it.
Lol... I thought maybe it was spring loaded or something.
Looks like just a little opening, or just a little door. Guess that explains the need for a ramp etc.
Mine have a 48" by 60" door so they don't use a ramp.
Knoxville and I have a silver wyandWyana RIR an EE and two pullets and a cockeral that I dismenber what mix they are. Two are black with iridescent blue and green. The other is charcoal black.
Well Rodger got another attaboy tonight. I got tied up with a long distance phone call from long lost friends, and didn't close up the coop.
As I went out to close it up in the dark, Rodger dove off the roost to challenge mr at the door. Soon as I turned my light on and he realized it was me he...