Thanks very much to this site for the great information and helping me cure my broody hen. She had been crazy broody for 2 months and had all of the other hens laying outside the coop, etc. It was a mess. So we finally isolated her in an old hutch for 4 days. It took a few days for her to calm...
I have a Zepherine Drouhin (sp?) that is a particular pink like that. It has a definite huge spring flush but I get more blooms thru the summer in California. If that is the rose it is an old rose and I have had years when I thought I should dig it up, then the next year it was a champ. go...
Hi! I am new at this. Started with my first 1000 mealworms from exoticnutrition.com. I have been happier with their quality than a few other places that I had purchased to just feed to the hens.
My first 2 "farms' (started 2 months apart) are the plastic sweater type with lock tops and glued...
Thanks so much. Now she just disappeared and we searched for 2 hours at 1 pm and found her under a bunch of scrap metal behind a shed looking very much comfy in a nest of pine needles. She is there NOW! She is the new layer. Should I grab her and egg if there is one and lock her in coop with...
Found a soft egg in the morning poop pile from the roost from last night. ??????? These are the first eggs for our 4 new hens who are about 18 weeks. If the shell is soft, maybe she doesn't know she is laying an egg? So it was broken with the pile of poop just under the roost from last...
Raked the sand bottom coop today and there were 2 soft shelled eggs in the feathers and poop. Missed one day of raking! So those were their first eggs!! The eggs were white and all of the hens are supposed to be brown eggers...?? I am blaming the red sex-linked hen? Boy, they were all up in...
Hi All. Our 4 girls are coming up on 16 weeks now. We just changed to Layena food. They get their share of scraps, watermelon and worms. But, honestly, how big are these POOPS going to get????????? Every morning when I let them out, there is another prize winning POOP. Todays winning POOP...
Hi! I thought this was going to be a deal breaker for us, also. Once they were old enough to be out in the large yard, they wanted to be up by the patio/house and POOP. I was hosing like crazy. Then I got an old mop out of the garage, the big old stringy kind, and I yell Shoo Shoo and run...
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Hi! I am pretty much a newbie, but we converted old greenhouse to a coop and put in the sand floor. We used kids playsand as it is washed and clean of clay and those things you would not want in kids playbox. It never clumps.
We laid down landscape cloth, the gray weed control cloth, under...
Abby, thanks for the question. I am also a newbie with a 16 week old Barred Rock and have no idea what to look for. We put a double x large nest box in the coop today with straw and golf balls. Don't know what else to do. Hoping nature takes its course!
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I am so sorry for your loss. This almost happened to us. When they came out of the coop and were staying in the yard all day. We found them looking thru the fence just inches away from the door. I guess we all know they are not famous for brains....... So we put a pan where the...
Hi! I am in East Bay also. Got my chicks at Alamo Feed and now go to the Concord Feed and Fuel that has a store in Dublin. They have alot for not being the old type feed store.
I am in need of a Chicken Sitter for the last weekend in July. I have 4 hens that will be 16 weeks at that time...
maybe girls are better pets than boys. we had a boy years ago. we would stake him out down by the river and he would eat everything down to the river rocks. very functional that way. but what a horrible animal. He used to put his head back by his penis, pee on his forehead and then come at...
I know. This will be my first year at the County Fair as a Newbie real chicken owner. I will definitely be looking at all of the poultry in a new light....like I want 'em! I have never been excited for the fair before. Can't wait to see what is there!