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Started with 6 bantam buckeyes. Lost 2 to coccidiosis pretty fast. Thought we were long out of that, at least a month since any symptom so switched them from medicated baby chow to general feed and within a week one pullet declined and died. another pullet somehow got her whole left side wracked...

I'd kike to know the bantams history and have been searching with no luck.

My bantam buckeyes getting comfortable in their new run

My bantam buckeyes have finally realized that the outside world is a good place and are leaving their coop by choice rather than being shooed out. Now they just need to figure out how to walk up the ramp to get back in!

new bantam Buckeye barn is done. Just big enough for the 6 chicklets out growing the brooder in the basement. The bottom board pulls out for easy cleaning and the roof sections hinge up for easy access. The run is 20 x 9 with the hardware cloth buried 2 ft down. The gate has a threshhold of...

My husband requested an addition to the new buckeye coop when he saw the dropping board I made for it. Yes he is a Buckeye, born in Ohio, graduated from Ohio State University. He is looking forward to many buckeye poops landing on this new board.

Went out today to meet the breeder and check out his flocks. He specializes in Old English, wow! Gorgeous! His buckeye flock is small but really nice looking. He'll have chicks for us around the end of May or being of June.

Funny how that happens. They take over with their poultry craziness but it's us who end up cleaning the coops most of the time. My husband is going to have to throttle back his desire to breed his feather loves or build be a real barn to manage them all.

I thought since we're out here in Oregon I was safe telling my Ohio born husband he could get Buckeyes someday if he found a source of quality birds or he built a bator for hatching eggs. After three years of looking I thought he'd given up and the coop would stay occupied with my Orpingtons...