Thanks Attila - I have checked her all over several times and can find nothing wrong with her Her poo is normal and her eyes clear - she cocks her head to listen when I talk to her..
Thanks for the reply - as I too feel bad that no one but you will take the time to help me..
You aren't...
Hello all -
Have searched the site and cannot find another thread with this in it:(
Our Barred girl - Speckles was limping 3 days ago when I went out to give them greens. I saw her and our Australorp ( ha- serene she is not - changing her name from Sidney to Sid Vicious) get into it over...
Thank you thank you!!!! I have waited like forever for this to happen
the girls are now 28 weeks - we have 1 each Golden Wyandotte, Salmon Faverelle, Australorp,Cinnamon Queen, and Plymouth Barred Rock. Have no idea who laid this one ( oops - a New Hampshire Red too )
though:) Would...
Our Golden Wyandotte boy started crowing yesterday morning!! Drove the younger dog nuts as he couldn't figure out what that noise was until he went out and found him crowing away!!
Whoo hoo !!!!!!
I got my first egg today too !!! Still warm!!! Went out to scoop the poop from under the roost ( we have sand in the coop) and - gasp- finally we have an egg!!!! Not sure
who laid it but it is about time!!! Hubby was calling them our welfare chickens just this morning...
Day 2 of leaves in the coop Sidney - our Australorp and Red our New Hampshire Red came out this morning on their own - so they got the Lion's share of the greens I threw in . Had to convince the others it was time to come out and I think they think they were shortchanged on greens ( that...
We have a friend who does graphics for a living - she is making us an awesome Biddy Barn sign and one for the door of our run that says - DUCK! with a cute duck with a goose bump on his head ( 2-sided) since you need to remember to duck if you are over 5'6"
We had a lot of metal siding left over from when they built my horse barn, so we used that to roof over our run. They still get a lot of sun during the day due to placement of the coop, and we can still keep the rain out. It is sloped to where it drains clear of the coop too - which is great!
Well, the girls finally decided that it was too dark and that the roost was where they wanted to be - so after the first brave girl went in and
the others saw that nothing ate her, they decided to go in too. That left the Roo, who still wasn't convinced he wanted to transverse the leaves to the...
Hello all! Have any of you put leaves in your coop as bedding? If so, how deep ? I cleaned the coop today and put a nice thick
layer of leaves in there and the girls ran in and back out . Do I have them too thick? Any advice welcomed and thank you!
We are anxiously waiting our first egg too!! They have been in the nest boxes messing around, but nothing yet. We put a couple of fake eggs in 2 of the boxes to see if they would get the hint,
but no takers so far .. They are all around 21 weeks - so it should be soon.......
Ok, I have read all the posts here and understand them. We have sand in our run as we have rocky, clay soil here and it is really compacted. The girls ( and one guy:) love scratching and "bathing" in the sand. My problem is that I really hate those shavings in the coop!
We have been doing the...
Our little banty cochin died the other day too. One day he was fine, the next morning he was dead.
This makes the 3rd chicken since June - and we too have no idea what could have caused it....