I was wearing plaid pajama bottoms.....that's the only thing different....they've seen me in everything though. Someone told me a big cat has been hanging around, but I've seen my chickens run a cat off. Maybe it was the the PJ's?
I fed my chickens first thing this morning and everything was fine. I went back out to feed them some cantaloupe leftovers and seeds and the whole flock was afraid of me. They ran everywhere away from from me and even into my shop where I had to shoo them out TWICE! I've had my flock about nine...
Mine don't eat it. I have a lemon tree in my back yard and an accasional lemon winds up on the ground. They won't touch them. I throw citrus hulls out on the compost pile every day and they don't touch them. They will eat every citrus flower they can reach.
OOOkay! That makes since. I'm going to pay closer attention and see if it's the same hen. I wish I could figure out how to post the pic of a hen birdogging my chihuahua.
I've searched a little on The Chicken Forum about chickens and dogs and mostly find horror stories of dogs exterminating a whole flock and such. I have three small dogs that are not at all aggressive to my chickens. The dogs were introduced to my chickens when the chickens were just chicks and...
I have one crossbilled hen in my flock. I considered "eliminating" her when I discovered her predicament as a chick. I had read about the feeding difficulties and low weight factors and wondered if it I wouldn't be doing her a favor. I'm glad I didn't. She's hanging in there and is quite...
Mallorca, Spain? How nice.....loved it. I have a full coop, but a friend of mine has just a piece of corrugated tin over his roost about 5 feet off the ground, and then his nest boxes right next to them where they can hop from the roost bars to the nesting boxes. Were here on the Texas Gulf...
Gosh yes. My chickens ate All the grapes on my grape arbor this year. I'd pick a few clusters to feed them, then they figured out how to get up there and pick their own. They loved em and were crapping purple poo poo for about a month! No harm done.
I swear every morning when I go out to feed my new flock on 19? week old wyandottes, I have to shuffle my feet to keep from stepping on someones toes. I weigh about 190lbs and I know it can't feel very good to them, they just squawk like " Hey! get off my feet so I can get to the chow". And then...
All of my chickens know each other and have been in the back yard together for the last month. They just go to different places to sleep. Do you think it's ok and start putting them together at night in the same coop. Some of the bigger Roos of the younger group already sleeps separately from...
rat snake.......you can call them chicken snakes because they like to hang out around chicken coops, barns, etc, ....anywhere they can catch a rat...or maybe an egg,\\. They like to bite and don't make very nice pets.
This is my first year for keeping chickens. I got my first group of Columbian Wyandotte chicks in May so they are about 3 months old. I built a small coop that they go into at night. I also got a new group of mixed (beautiful) wyandotte chicks a couple weeks ago. I keep these 12 chicks in a...