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Came home to find out that a fox came calling for breakfast this morning. Ma said it snuck around the big philidawndra plant the chickens use for cover. Said it looked like a red fox. The chickens hide under that plant from areal predators and during the summer it provides great shade. They use...

Ok, I was at a new feed store (first time checking it out, actually has been there for really long time) and the fellow told me that you have to be careful of Pea chicks eating their own poo due to enzimes that are fatal to them. He said that they are very fragile in their first 3 months of...

Do Peafowl dust bathe the same as chickens? What is a good book on Peafowl to add to my library for reference? Do they like fruit such as blueberries n watermelon? I just got a couple of peachicks that are around 2 to 3 weeks old. 1 is a black shoulder and 1 is a pied. The pied is more curious...

I had a fun and busy day today. Done wore myself out but it was worth it. Headed over to the Trade Day event with one thing on my mind. Find a young bantam rooster to replace Cinnimon with. Cinnimon turned bad by becoming too aggressive and rough with his hens. The poor things were stressed...

Blueberry was healthy and fine yesterday until the evening. She suddenly went under the big hutch, lay down, and would not move. Rita, her best bud was fussing over her in a concerned way so I knew something was wrong. Went to pick her up and she had a hurt foot that was oozing dark fluid. I...

Every wonder what the chicks are doing under the Brinsea brooders? They hear us coming and duck under where we cannot view them, well I managed to sneak a few photos of the chicks before the camera was kicked back out. As with any fancy club a guard is posted ... This is where getting the...

The days have grown shorter and the cold is creeping in. All the chickens are thankful for their warm downy feathers except poor Alice. Alice came in one night in such a frightful state. It seems she has lost her feathers and is too uncomfortable to go out on the big date. Yes the others had...

Darla is soo tiny and cute. Here she is with her momma Rosie in a few pictures I took. When you see the older chicks next to her you can really see how tiny she is. Darla is the wee baby that I revived that nearly froze to death. She stays close to momma now.

I went out to check on my chickies and let everyone out when I came home from shopping. When I let Blueberry out with her chicks and checked on Rosie and her.....missing chick? Yes, Rosie's baby was missing! She just hatched either late Wednesday evening. I looked around and there I saw...

Something strange has been happening around the coops. At first the evidence was mainly spotted in the Layers coop a few weeks back. The little chick was asked if she knew what was happening. She stated: "Feathers keep getting blown into our play pen, I like how soft they are. It is fun to play...

Yep, a few of my girls decided to brood. Infact, I have another one in the nest box brooding at this moment on 4 eggs. I have 4 adorable chicks being raised by Blueberry the cucko silkie. This is Blueberry's 2nd batch this year. There was five chicks but one died. My girls kept stealing each...

My sweet Coronation Sussex eggs that I had bought from BYC auction are in lock down. Today is day 21 and I came home to find a bright eyed curious baby girl peeping at me. I was so happy to see her. Then I noticed the egg she zipped out of was zipped right down the middle! Wow, how did she do...

Hi, My name is Peaches, I am a handsome buff Silkie with a really really huge head gear. My gear is soo Huge that it is Awesome! This is me back in July when I stopped growing taller. As you can see my head gear is normal in this pic and I did not get much attention. My head gear did not...

Yep, got more broodies Again. The girls are not just satisfied with keeping the eggs warm....nope, they steal each others nest spot if the others nest looks nicer, steal nest material by stretching their necks to pluck the stuff from the closest nest, and the stinkers keep stealing eggs from...

If you have a buck that is about a year old nuetered would he still have the strong buck smells?

I was told that Calf Mana is an excellent treat to use to bribe a skittish goat to become friendly. However, I did not see any feed products named Calf Mana. Has anyone else heard of it and is it sold under a different name?

Cinnimon is my sweet, cuddly, Partridge Silkie rooster that has girl woes. Cinnimon was raised with 2 lovely Silkie girls Rita and Blueberry. Long story short - both girls are too busy being mommas to give him attention so he has been chasing the young pullets who are very fast. Every so often...

I have been treating 2 chicks that were bit pretty bad by fire ants. The Wyandotte chick received multiple bites on the right side of her face and under her beak. She swelled up real bad and the bites look pretty knarly. The Silkie chick was bit at her right eyelid which swelled up bad. Both...

Yep, Blueberry started to lay eggs and only laid for 1 week before she decided to be a momma. As fiesty as she is she got her wish and was given 3 eggs to adopt. 1 egg was hers, another was donated by her best pal Rita, and another from Saphire. Rita even decided to help Blueberry at the end...

Yep, one showed up for dinner. I just moved the younger cockerals along with Tubb and Peaches to the bachelor pen last night. I didn't think much of it as I have not lost any to furry predators. The bachelor pen does need fortifying and I just bought some hardy clothe to use on it but ran out of...