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@hiltonizer Do you have plans for any other orders this year? We're looking to get six or so mixed bantams to add to our flock, but we don't really have room for the fifteen minimum order. I'm in China/Palermo.

Hello everyone. I've disappeared from here for a million years, but have returned for a question. Does anyone in the central Maine area raise bantams and might possibly have some (or fertile eggs) for sale this spring? My middle son has developed an interest in them, and we have some extra room...

@Jazor I had a hen just like that earlier this winter. Same droppings. Same weird smell about her. I suspected egg yolk periontitis (spelling?) because I had recently had to remove a soft shelled egg from her vent. I thought we would lose her for sure, but we kept her in where it was warm and...

I was planning to save my shoveling for tomorrow, but I just went out to do the chicken chores (they're in our barn), and we have some pretty big piles inside that have drifted in through cracks under the doors. I also heard the sounds of a stray taking shelter in our barn. Put some food out...

Yes! We're in south China as well. Branch mills. Welcome to the area! I grew up here and brought my husband here to live after college. It's a great community.

Welcome! We must live close. I also describe us as halfway between Augusta and Belfast. I'm still carrying for a sick SLW in my kitchen. Diarrhea, little appetite, but she's doing better than she was.

I had my first frozen egg two days ago. Yesterday I set a timer to go off every few hours so I wouldn't forget to run out and check. Had to go bring fresh water anyway. Don't you just love that "hands frozen to the bucket" feeling?

I thought that looked familiar! My husband and I lived there right after we got married. I loved it there.

How will I know if they're frozen? Right now I'm such a frequent coop visitor that it's a non issue.

After an unsuccessful start to our first laying season (only a couple of our hens ever began laying), we decided to try out supplemental lighting to make sure that it was light,and not another factor, affecting our flock. I am so happy to see the entire flock now showing signs of laying, and...

Our pullets will be 20 weeks tomorrow, and we had 3 start laying this week. I was shocked! No complaints here.

Found our first egg today! Our Marans laid it out by the compost pile, and I almost stepped on it. We're having a "stay in the run" day tomorrow to try to encourage nesting box use. The kids were stoked.

Welcome!

What a beautiful summer and end of summer we've been having. I haven't been online nearly as much and have been spending lots of time outside. Our first flock seems to be coming of age. They're 18 weeks old now, and I'm starting to notice some subtle and not-so-subtle changes from day to day...

Keep me posted on the SLWs. I'm curious to know when mine will lay, since I keep hearing that they tend to be later. Mine is only 17 weeks, so it will probably be a couple of months!

I would give her another day or so to sit. The hatchlings should be fine until then, and she probably won't attempt to take them for food and water right off. I don't have any of my own hatching experience, but my mom always separated her broooding hens and babies from the rest of the flock with...

I love "downtown" New Sharon. When my husband and I were living in Wilton, we looked at renting there to try to cut his commute to Augusta. Also got my father's Toyota Camry stuck on a snowmobile trail in the woods there when my husband and I were dating. We mistook it for an actual road. That's...

I moved mine out to the coop at 4 weeks and turned off the heat lamp a few days shy of 6 weeks, back in early June. These were our first chicks, so they were the only ones in the coop.

We saw our first raccoon last night (also under a bird feeder), and now that I see that paw print, I think I know what made the muddy print on the galvanized food bin outside. I'm pretty sure the girls are safe inside their coop. It's solid wood all around, including the floor, with locked...

Welcome back Kelly! This is the time of year where I start to feel overwhelmed with the apparent jungle growing around me. We still have a lot to do with our garden, coop, lawn, etc. I still find plenty of other ways to distract myself