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You're the best!!

How do we subscribe to all the threads we used to, and find them easily--like we used to?

Thanks. I drop in every few days, but not much to say. Down to 7 hens, but they are all well & happy. We will all be glad when ground is bare! All I know about tapping I learned from the interwebs. There is a Maine association of maple tappers that had great information. You can tap birch trees...

I tapped one of my maples, this year. Don't know if I'll boil it down for syrup...too much moisture to do it indoors and I don't have a gas grill to do it outside. The sap makes lovely coffee, though. Just use it instead of water.

The girls are finally starting back to laying and I had a small miracle on Saturday. I got an egg from my leghorn--her first since June 28! She's 4.

I just checked previous calendars and in December 2013, I had 105 eggs, with 4 layers--two were leghorns. 2014 there were 56, 2015 - 18. This year, 2. I've had pullets that have gone into lay the previous fall, until this year. Next year, I'm freezing eggs in November!

Since it's been awhile since anyone has posted, here's a question: How many eggs is everyone getting out of number of birds, with number of hours of daylight?  Any supplemental lighting or heat? I've missed y'all. I have 8 hens altogether. 5 are almost two. They are Easter eager-Dominique...

Welcome! TONS of fabulous info in this thread. Worth reading all the way through (a little at a time, when you have time.) Questions usually get answered, it may take awhile. It seems like all of us have been pretty busy and not posting much, lately.

each is organic. I go between a Blue Seal brand and one from another local feed store. I haven't noticed any major changes in feathers or eggs--but I started after feathers had been eaten, so they look scruffy, anyway. The eater is my white leghorn--she always has done. Maybe the feather piking...

I wanted to report on an 'experiment' I've been conducting. There were conversations about layer feed vs all-flock with higher protein, the value of giving the chickens a choice, if possible, AND that feather eating and bullying might be related to not enough protein (I do give meat, sometimes.)...

I just want to sing the praises of Lazy Gardener's flock. I have three of her girls from the EE too and Dominique mom. No broody, yet. (I' rather they didn't) But they ARE beautiful, have lovely rose combs, do very well in the cold and though they are not interested in hanging out with me, do...

It sure is mine! We seem to have slowed down on posting, lately, but there is gold all through this thread and stellar chicken-keepers to learn from.

I've been using oak, maple, birch, beech leaves in the coop & covered run for three years. It's mostly oak. I got chickens as much for shredding leaves (for compost) as for eggs. They break the leaves down beautifully and the poop mixed in makes fabulous soil for my garden!

Welcome! I enjoy hearing about chicken raising in other areas of the world.

Delisha...you are definitely in my prayers! We have missed your sage advice and look forward to you being recovered and having time and energy to join us again. You mean a lot to us.

My oldest are a couple of months over 2 years old. They are slowing down. The leghorn laid almost every single day until last winter. Now, she's laying one every 3-5 days. (She's just running out!) Unless there is an acute problem, I'm not planning on culling them & we'll see how long they...

I have a white leghorn hen (laid almost every single day until her second winter) who now crows at random...usually the day after she lays an egg! My daughter read that sometimes rooster less flocks will have a dominant hen take over rooster duties--being extra vigilant about predators and...

I LOVE that picture! (Poor thing.) If she could write, I'd ask for her autograph.

The tunnels are to move from one area to another. I have hot pink string up in the yard and behind the coop. I don't know that it really protects from hawks. My hope is that it at least looks weird enough from the sky that it gives them pause. My town's ordinance requires chickens to be behind...

The frames are rough cut hemlock. They'll stand a gale. I think even 2x3 or 2x4 lumber would not roll in wind. The fencing lets wind flow right through it.