Glad she is feeling better!
She is recovering!
Congratulation... so cute!i have hatching eggs available now and hopefully goslings on the 10th from my Sebastopol geese. pm me if interested
Mine destroyed all my plants, grass, bushes and trees too... but my rosemary and my cacti are still here LOL. That is the joy of free ranging!I have successfully found two plants that my chickens will not touch!!!! I'm sure there are others, but hey, one step at a time. The two I've found and currently have growing happily in my garden? Rosemary and lavender! I figure the bitter nature of those two plants may be what makes them less appealing than others, but they are the first two I've found that my chickens go out of their way to avoid nibbling. They'll eat everything else though, the leaves off rose bushes, falling rose petals, ripe rose hips, banana leaves, goji berry, blackberry, raspberry and blueberry leaves plus the fruit from each, Grape leaves, and the grapes. They try to grab the leaves off my almond and peach trees, but those are a bit too high up for them to reach. They try to jump, but still to high, but definitely hilarious to watch!
Oh, they haven't tried to eat my dragonfruit, but I think the reason for avoiding that cactus is pretty obvious hehe.....All my garden veggies I keep safely in a greehouse. Every now and again I'll opening up the greenhouse and let them in to nibble here and there, but that's never for very long. By the time I open up the greenhouse I have an excess of greens that I am more than happy to share and boy do my peeps love Love LOVE chard!!!! hehe
What other plants have ya'll found that your chickens seem to avoid like the plague?
Are they fainting goats? Really cute babies and beautiful mama... she did a great job!This isn't chicken news, but I received a Happy Monday gift this morning... babies. Now counting the 6 chicks in the bator, one more is a question mark.
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Arg... it makes me mad. I am so glad you say something.I went to the feed store this morning to get some feed. There were a group of people around the baby chicks so of course i had to check them out. To my horrible dismay a mom was letting her toddler pick up the chicks and drop them. I had to put a stop to the insanity immediately. The store owner thanked me after laying down the law to the offenders. two of the poor chicks were injured, one with spradle leg and another with what appears to be a slipped Achilles tendon. Well both chicks were given to me free of charge, as well as 2 more just to keep them company. And all I wanted was feed!!!
The lil one with spradle leg brace was applied and although it is a bit annoyed seems to be doing ok. The one with the slipped tendon, I rolled it back into place and used a bendy straw as a splint. This one not looking so goodThey are all Anconas.
I saw him at the Norco meet up. Very sweet guy... he actually was getting bullied by some Welsummer hens if I am not mistaking.
