My Minorca just growled at me, it was like nothing I have ever heard, she also gave me the stinckiest stink eye EVER - wish I had had my camera out there. I have never been growled at by a chicken before, I had to look around, I thought a half cat half dog mutant thing was under the coop, then...
As promised, pics of my redneck feeder and waterer. My reason for "rednecking it" besides the recycling aspect of reusing things that would have been tossed, is my TSC is always out of the chick waterers.
feeder - made from a SoBe bottle and a Parmesan cheese flakes container. I cut 3 evenly...
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Well, I think my ladies are on strike, LOL. I have always just fed them the Dumor, well this last time I had to get the Layena... They have been on it for a week and the past 3 days I have gotten only 2-4 eggs instead of the 5-6 a day I have been getting.
So I have boiled up a bunch of eggs I...
Caster oil is only gonna work if it is time anyway... well and make you poo so much you might take up residence on the potty all day. Get an exercise ball, they relieve back pressure, bounce on it a bit, roll your hips front to back and side to side. Helped me out a lot.
Oh, they are so cute!! Are they sex linked? Or just different color patterns? What color eggs do they lay? Till this thread I had never heard of them.
I am looking into starting a line of showgirl silkies, any advice or tips? I found online how to breed them and in what order so that by 3 rd or...