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  1. EssexGirl

    Hello from Sonora CA

    You could tell him the chickies will have to share your bed until the coop is done!
  2. EssexGirl

    Hello from Sonora CA

    I don't know about the Eglu, sorry, but from a brief internet search it looks to me like it wouldn't be big enough for the number of chickens you have. Good luck with the coop construction though, and welcome to the forum!
  3. EssexGirl

    can I let my chicken run loose.

    Quote: Yeah, right. Mine use props to get on top of the coop and over a 10ft fence if they feel like it. However, they are not tame ... hopefully you'll have better luck, maybe give it a try but keep the treats handy so you can keep her close. ETA: And that's WITH one wing clipped.
  4. EssexGirl

    Is this the right feed?

    Hi there, Everything I've read on here says to feed cracked corn as a treat - just throw a handful down for the chickens to scratch up. I'm sure they won't starve themselves if you leave the Purina out and withhold the corn - they will usually eat whatever's available, once they figure out...
  5. EssexGirl

    Wyndotte laying behavior?

    I have two GLWs, somewhere over a year old, and it seems like they alternate days - I don't often get a day when they both lay. Don't know what they were like when they were younger, as we didn't have them then.
  6. EssexGirl

    Chicken fertilizer

    Why don't you try posting on Craigs List or Freecycle? I would think that most people on this forum have a good supply from their own chickens, but before we had chickens I would have loved to find some.
  7. EssexGirl

    Muddy Coop Club

    My husband borrowed my boots this morning to let the chickens out - and very kindly left them outside, in the rain, where I've just found them. The girls are looking very bedraggled and bewildered, like - who put a swimming pool in when we weren't looking? I've just opened the stable door (we...
  8. EssexGirl

    Chickens getting the better of me!

    I swear, my hens are taking it in turns to wind me up. We've just managed, after five months, to stop our Andalusian from escaping into the garden to lay her egg - she now happily lays in the nestbox every day. So this week, my Mottled Java, who is a good deal heavier and not a great flyer, is...
  9. EssexGirl

    Mystery of a fourth egg....

    Do you know for sure that your hens ate the shell (evidence of pieces of broken shell, insides broken)? If the inside was whole, it could be that one of them laid a soft-shelled egg. They don't always lay an egg each every day, and then it is possible (but unusual) to get a soft-shelled egg even...
  10. EssexGirl

    Nesting, but no egg?

    Maybe it's just that her timing is off ... she went back later in the morning and laid an egg!
  11. EssexGirl

    Japanese Knotweed

    I don't have any experience with this plant but apparently it's ok for humans to eat, so I can't imagine it would be a problem for your chickens. Hope this helps ... http://www.wisebread.com/free-food-in-your-yard-edible-weeds
  12. EssexGirl

    muddy, poor draining backyard

    Hmm, I've heard of sheet mulching ... is that what you mean? You put down sheets of cardboard or fabric, then pile wood chips on top. And usually you would plant through the cardboard, but the chickens will probably eat anything you could plant. We are just putting fine bark chips in our chicken...
  13. EssexGirl

    Nesting, but no egg?

    One of my hens, a Mottled Java who's probably just about a year old, frequently sits in the nest box for half an hour then flies out squawking, but hasn't laid an egg. She is laying, but not every day. Anyone know why she would do this?
  14. EssexGirl

    Young Easter Egger Has Stopped Laying - Why?

    My EE stopped laying for a few weeks and I think it was after we introduced a couple of new hens. They overtook her in the pecking order and I didn't realize for a while - thought she was maybe sick, as her cheek feathers looked tatty. Then I figured out she was getting picked on by the others...
  15. EssexGirl

    Hens are not roosting?!

    We got a couple of hens that had not been used to roosting on a perch and we spent weeks lifting them up on to the perch at night. They would stay, but they never figured out how to get up there without help and would sleep in the nestbox if left alone,. We put in a ladder up to the perch and...
  16. EssexGirl

    Night light for chickens?

    If you have an enclosed coop that you're going to shut them in at night, you can always cover the windows - we have shutters on ours. Mind you, it doesn't stop the rooster crowing at 3am anyway - we had to put in soundproofing as well.
  17. EssexGirl

    Do you have an early bird? that likes to roost early...

    One of my Andalusians is always first in, just before it starts getting dark ... last week I opened the gate for them all to run round the garden just before bedtime ... it was raining and she stuck her head out of the gate, decided against it, and took herself off to bed - the others had all...
  18. EssexGirl

    EE's eating each other's beards! what the hey!

    I only have one EE and seems like two or three of the other hens are pulling out her cheek feathers and picking on her when they get the chance. Maybe they're jealous of her good looks ... hoping they'll get bored eventually. I thought she was sick for a while, till I figured out what was going on.
  19. EssexGirl

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    8 for 8
  20. EssexGirl

    Storing feed in plastic trash cans

    I used to keep our feed in a plastic tote in the stable, but squirrels chewed a hole in the lid - and one day a squirrel leapt out of the box when I went to get the feed and gave me such a fright!
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