people with house chickens

[MsChickenMomma]

Sunni hates our dog and cats with a passion.

 

[chicken 123]

I just put hay in my hoop for my chickens

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I switched Sunni's bedding to shavings yesterday evening before she went to bed, and she smells SO much better. Shavings make more of a mess, but at least she doesn't stink.

 

[chicken 123]

Well sometimes you just have to do what you got to do

 

[ChickenPeep]

@MsChickenMomma shavings are the best! I used to love to snuggle and smell my chickens feathers when I put cedar chips in their cages because it made them smell soo good. But then I found out cedar chips are toxic to chickens, so now I use pine shaving.

 

[gryeyes]

I have the TV set on now, and my two House Chickens have settled down for the evening on the audio bar (although they are on the recliner with me in the following photo).

An E-surance commercial just aired, the one using chicks cheeping to reflect "cheap" rates. Sparkle Silkie, the Broody Queen (not currently broody OR raising chicks woke right up and chirrupped in response to the cheeping. Both she and Punkin looked around for chicks. They're still slightly alert.

I bolded (Is that even a word?) the above text because Sparkle just went broody again in the dog bed under the TV table. I blame E-surance for this.

 

[MsChickenMomma]

I bolded (Is that even a word?) the above text because Sparkle just went broody again in the dog bed under the TV table.

I blame E-surance for this.

I would love to have a Silkie some day, but the excessive broodiness would drive me bonkers.

@MsChickenMomma shavings are the best! I used to love to snuggle and smell my chickens feathers when I put cedar chips in their cages because it made them smell soo good. But then I found out cedar chips are toxic to chickens, so now I use pine shaving.

I love opening fresh bails of shavings just to smell them. The smell of pine shavings is probably one of my top 3 favorite smells. I didn't know about the Cedar shavings being toxic until about 6 months ago. When I found out I was frantic and ran out to check the shavings bag. Thankfully the stuff I have always been using is Pine.

 

[ChickenPeep]

gryeyes, I feel your pain.

My blue silkie Winter has been broody for 3 months and I have been trying to break her like crazy, but she's relentless! And on top of that, my buff silkie Pumpkin just went broody, too!

It's E- surance's fault.

 

[ChickenPeep]

I love opening fresh bails of shavings just to smell them. The smell of pine shavings is probably one of my top 3 favorite smells.

I didn't know about the Cedar shavings being toxic until about 6 months ago. When I found out I was frantic and ran out to check the shavings bag. Thankfully the stuff I have always been using is Pine.

I love the smell of cedar like nothing else! It's definitely one of my favorite smells. But I really do love the smell of fresh cut pine, the kind of smell you get when you saw a pine tree down. And then if you add some citrus scent to that... oh!

That's the best! It just screams Christmas!

 

[MsChickenMomma]

Thankfully I don't have any broody hens at the moment. Two of my Buff Orpingtons are constantly broody in the Summer. I sure am going to miss them when they go to their new homes...