too tired to write much, worked today then came home and worked on the garden/played with the kids/did stuff for the poultry. Garden beds are all built/filled with dirt. Corn and field peas are all planted. We finally found how Eliza the bantam is getting into the garden, and closed up the gaps. Re-planted all the peas she had dug up and eaten.
Aoxa, I love your pictures, especially the one where the silkie looks like it's considering the water very seriously. like "do you think I can swim too?"
Stony, the ducks are so cute with their chicken mama!
The peach and ginger Kombucha sounds amazing. I'll have to try that. My sister makes Kombucha and is sending me a scoby. Best. Sister. Ever.
I did some research about the big crocks, and I'm sure enough that the chances of it having lead are pretty slim to be comfortable using it.
Question for the day. My big buff orpington hen has gotten what seems to me extremely thin. No one else seems particularly skinny. Just her. They have a couple acres of free range, kitchen scraps, and a little feed at night. It's june, she should be fine on free range.Everyone else seems ok on free range.... I'm adding garlic and cayenne to the food again for a week or two, any other ideas? I don't really want to feed everyone more grain. I want them to get out and rustle up their own food, not gossip by the water cooler (so to speak!) But I really am worried about this hen's condition. She also has sort of persistently "dirty trousers" not a lot, just a streak or two on her floof. I always figured it was just because she's got the poofy BO bottom. I checked her over today her vent looks clean, no foul smell, not lice or anything that I could see (I looked for clusters on the base of the feather shafts). She looks a little rough, but with my only other adult hen broody she's pretty much the only recipient of cassanova's affections. (well, he mates the cuckoo marans whenever he can catch her, which isn't often... lol.). Any advice would be appreciated.
Aoxa, I love your pictures, especially the one where the silkie looks like it's considering the water very seriously. like "do you think I can swim too?"
Stony, the ducks are so cute with their chicken mama!
The peach and ginger Kombucha sounds amazing. I'll have to try that. My sister makes Kombucha and is sending me a scoby. Best. Sister. Ever.
I did some research about the big crocks, and I'm sure enough that the chances of it having lead are pretty slim to be comfortable using it.
Question for the day. My big buff orpington hen has gotten what seems to me extremely thin. No one else seems particularly skinny. Just her. They have a couple acres of free range, kitchen scraps, and a little feed at night. It's june, she should be fine on free range.Everyone else seems ok on free range.... I'm adding garlic and cayenne to the food again for a week or two, any other ideas? I don't really want to feed everyone more grain. I want them to get out and rustle up their own food, not gossip by the water cooler (so to speak!) But I really am worried about this hen's condition. She also has sort of persistently "dirty trousers" not a lot, just a streak or two on her floof. I always figured it was just because she's got the poofy BO bottom. I checked her over today her vent looks clean, no foul smell, not lice or anything that I could see (I looked for clusters on the base of the feather shafts). She looks a little rough, but with my only other adult hen broody she's pretty much the only recipient of cassanova's affections. (well, he mates the cuckoo marans whenever he can catch her, which isn't often... lol.). Any advice would be appreciated.
