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  1. Baby Album

    Baby Album

    This is the Baby Album Don'tcha miss those days? I claim my chicks were the cutest of all :) First day!! The brooder is a tupperware box with a lid made of hardware cloth in a wooden frame. Their light is a nice heat light set on an old camera tripod over the box so we could raise and lower it...
  2. My Flock 1

    My Flock 1

    Here is my Flock! I own 5 birds total in a suburban neighborhood. I made each one a little profile in order of aquisition Baby Album Sweet Digs (the coop) Dolly Inspired by Dolly Parton with that blond hair and big chest, Dolly is a buff laced crested polish pullet. She has...
  3. TreeFever

    Help a college farm bird with a nasty necrotic wound

    She drank a lot of water and passed the "pee" portion of a chicken poo. She wont eat yet. She seems chilled again. My boss said we'll let her be for the night and if she doesn't seem perky by tomorrow we might just do the right thing if ya know what I mean. We have so many birds it's...
  4. TreeFever

    Help a college farm bird with a nasty necrotic wound

    Hey all, I'm writing not from home this time but from my college. I go to a work college (Warren Wilson) with a large operating farm. We have a huge chicken tractor following our cattle around that houses 200 something laying hens (NH Reds, Barred Rocks, Buff Orps). This morning I was doing a...
  5. TreeFever

    Polish hen has soft poops, any ideas for the cause?

    My two year old crested Polish hen has some soft poo that is sticking to her bum feathers. The poo is pretty normal colored, sort of the color of their food, maybe a little darker. It's less formed (unlike the perfect little plops or spirals that my other birds make) when it falls to the ground...
  6. TreeFever

    Neighbor's dog ate our only roo....how do we replace?

    I would really recommend searching for a farm rescue shelter or an animal shelter that takes livestock. So many roosters end up in those places. Adopting a roo will let you do two things. 1. It will save a beautiful bird from being put down due to inevitable overcrowding 2. You can gauge the...
  7. TreeFever

    A watering question

    Thanks all! I guess I'll place a few dishes in spots that they frequent.
  8. TreeFever

    A watering question

    I have a question about where to put my birds waterer. They have a normal waterer, always clean and full. When I'm out in the yard sunbathing or working in the garden, I let them out of their run so they can forage in the garden. I leave the run door wide open for them to come and go as they...
  9. TreeFever

    Swollen eyes on bantams, already lost 4

    This may be going out on a limb, but if there are house finches in your area, they may have spread a certain type of conjunctivitis to your birds that caused the crusty eyes. Housefinches carry a strain of conjunctivitis. I caught a bird in my yard this fall that had it.
  10. TreeFever

    Black EE: Red comb=roo for sure? (Also, question about crested birds.)

    My WCB polish has huge wobblers on her chin! When I had a Polish roo, his crest feathers were all pointed from the start and he looked SO much more awkward and pokey than the girls. don't give up hope yet!!
  11. TreeFever

    Icicles on my polish

    Hey guys, just a question about winter water for crested breeds. I use a plastic dog dish for winter water because it's easier to thaw. My problem is that my crested Polish dip the ends of their crest feathers in it when they go to get a sip of water. They grab a drink inside and then head out...
  12. TreeFever

    Hen with muscle spasms around vent?

    As for the muscle flexing in and out, chicken bums tend to just do that : The runny poo is definitely something to keep an eye on, sounds like you're doing a good job!
  13. TreeFever

    A neat experiment to do with your eggs:

    Extra eggs laying around and some curious kids? Try this egg-speriment: First, take a normal, uncooked egg and set it in a dish big enough to hold the whole egg. Fill the dish with vinegar until the egg is submerged. Leave overnight. When you wake up in the morning, the vinegar will have...
  14. TreeFever

    How do you clean a chickens....

    I wanna know too! I have heard to use saline solution in a dropper?
  15. TreeFever

    Moles

    The best way to get rid of moles, as told by Mr. Roald Dahl: Pick out several empty wine bottles and go scout out the mole's points of entry. Bury the bottles at these points all the way up to where the neck begins. (Think back to being a kid and blowing over the tops of empty coke bottles) When...
  16. TreeFever

    Ceramic Infrared Heat Emitter (gonna try it out tonight!)

    I love my ceramic bulb. The birds egg production went up after I put it in! They also have a regular bulb that is on from 7 am to 6, stretching daylight just a bit.
  17. TreeFever

    converting part of garage to coop?

    I'd love to see too! This is something that occured to me after I built a fancy coop way on the other end of the yard....
  18. TreeFever

    Apartment deck mini-coop for banties??

    oooo! An undercover operation!! Us agents will assist you Sarge! *salute* I like the idea of using a child's playhouse as a coop. If you have a mud room they could have some indoor stretching space? I'd really like to suggest adopting a chicken from a humane society farm shelter. My rooster went...
  19. TreeFever

    Contest: Your biggest and smallest chickens!!

    Keep them coming!
  20. TreeFever

    Super big goofy shaped eggs...

    You have an abstract artist on your hands
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