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"Oh my gosh Krissy! I can't believe I've missed this event in your life! Please tell me everything is working out. I will be happy to foster your girls for you if you need a place to keep them unti you get settled again. Let me know your status...I'm…"
"Hi everyone who has so kindly responded, the reason for rehoming my girls is we had our house on the market and our future is up in the air, I thought it best to rehome them before people started coming by to look at the house. We got 3 offers the…"
"Looks like you already have 4 offers, but if they fall through... I'd love to have a couple of your hens. I already have 2 Leghorns and a Barred Rock. I have 2 connected pens, so it is a good set-up to ease the transition for new flock members..."
"I am looking to add to my flock and would be interested in taking your girls. I can promise that they will be for eggs and enterainment only. Give me a call at 623-224-0692 if you haven't found any takers."
"If your other offers fall through, I could take your Easter Eggers. I have 3 chickens currently that free range in my yard and am planning to add two more. Ours are family pets, and yours would be very loved by our family."
"Hello,
I have been gearing up to take on hens, and would love to start with just two. I have a wonderful yard for them with lots of trees, shade and protection, and have been reading up on just how to construct my coop. I can't say that I truly…"
I have been gearing up to take on hens, and would love to start with just two. I have a wonderful yard for them with lots of trees, shade and protection, and have been reading up on just how to construct my coop. I can't say that I truly…"
"Thank-you. They've been such a source of joy, more than I ever thought possible."
Sadly I am finding myself needing to rehome my beloved hens. They are 2 Easter eggers (Ameraucana), 1 RIR, and 1 Black Sex Link (Black Star). All lay like clockwork, the Black Star being the most productive. If taking pairs, I prefer the 2 Easter…
"I had a really really tiny egg from my bantam hen who already laid small eggs, but then she laid an even smaller one!"
"Mine to! Although they haven't laid any eggs at all lately. Too hot. My little black sex link & RIR lay everyday despite the heat."
"my green egg layers are the ones i get the most double yolkers from"
"i have had serveral like this in the pasr few years, some have small yolk some have no yolk , i have had several large eggs with a double yolk and have had one the only one i have ever seen with 3 yolks in it"
"I just wanted to tell everyone that the teeny weeny egg didn't have a yolk. :-( I was hoping to make the world's smallest sunny side up egg for my son. Oh well. He ate it anyway!"
"Believe it or not they will even eat mice! Yuck! I actually try to get their attention when I see a lizard, so they'll go after it.... it's perfectly fine, just more protein. :-) Once I managed to herd a lizard into the coop and they went wild…"
"Shanna,
I read your comment on my video and just thought I'd warn you about the rabbit eating the feed! The workers at Pratts told me this was ok, so I continued to let her eat it, and now she has malaclusion (sp?) of her teeth, where they are…"
I read your comment on my video and just thought I'd warn you about the rabbit eating the feed! The workers at Pratts told me this was ok, so I continued to let her eat it, and now she has malaclusion (sp?) of her teeth, where they are…"
"I think they are fine. Sometimes if I'm too busy I don't get the eggs until the next day....so far so good, no food poisoning etc! Plus when they are first laid they are very warm to the touch, so I think that continuing to be warm won't hurt them,…"
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I just posted to your blog but what is going on? Do you need me to keep your girls until you get settled again? Hope all is well! Send me an update when you get a chance!
Vanessa
I am loving the cooler mornings! Got up this morning at 5:30 and there was a chill in the pool. It was nice. Tried to walk my dogs who haven't been out of the house in a year and most likely not on a walk for several years...I'm terrible! Now trying to do the 'healthy' thing and get them out too. They are big and very unsocialized. My coop d ville is just hopping with action. We treated the 3 new babies with antibiotics as they all had an upper respitory and eye infections. Now they are in the little hutch inside the coop and the 5 adolescents are out with the 4 big girls. Only two are laying eggs still. Dixie is about 4 months and Phyllis is about 6 months. Not sure when polish bantams lay eggs but I'm curious to see what they will look like. The squash bugs ruin everything left worth anything this year so I cleaned out my garden last weekend and threw what compost I had on it and covered it with a layer of straw. I don't even know what the next step is but have been looking at the planting calendar to see what I'm suppose to be planting and it's getting close to doing the winter garden already! I wish I had a truck to get a load of Ken Singh's compost accross town. All the chickens loooove the misters and they have been a life saver and stress reliever for sure! I can't wait to have a larger egg production! Hope your summer is finally cooling off and your chickens are doing well...It really has been an experience and I'm so glad I've had you to share it with.
Take care,
Susan
I came home Friday to Louise (Ameraucana) down with heat exhaustion. She even laid an egg that day! She couldn't get up, was limp and panting really hard. I was FREAKED out to say the least. I set up the emergency triage in our master bathroom and gave her a sitz bath in cool water. She recovered in about an hour. I went out and hosed down the rest of the flock then let them out to cool off in the yard. Saturday, we went to Water and Ice and bought 3 large blocks and stuck them in the coops under the two fans. Then my husband went to Lowes and bought a $29 mister set. We stuck it on the long 'sun' side of the coop (though there are shade covers). I can't tell you how well it works! The coop is 5 X 10. The front side (2 1/2 X 10) stays a bit wet and cool but that's ok because the other side stays dry and cool. It's a perfect set up! They loooooove it! It's so cool in there that I moved the 5 two week old chicks out into the hutch which is still inside. My husband caught the chicken bug and built a cool green corregated roof top a few weeks ago. Then this weekend he built a matching double nest box with a hinged lid! It has a little green roof at an angle so I have it on the 'wet' side where it's cooler and Thelma and Louise have both used it today! I'm sure it's much better then those old plastic boxes they had before! So then we put a tree pole in about a foot or so off the ground in the back with a fan that blows the length of the pole so they can get up off the ground for a cool breeze. I've also been feeding them frozen bananas, chilled cucumbers and tomatoes from the garden in the morning to hydrate them as Rachel suggested. I think I've turned it into the neighborhood Aviary Resort because every time I go out there to check on things, all the sparrows and doves are chilling out taking dust baths! I even love being in there!
I'm on vacation this week so I can make sure the coop-d-ville is top notch before I head back to work! I hope your girls are doing good. I highly recommend a mister if you can fit it into your coop design. Let me know what you think, Susan
I have three roosters out of the 4 chicks. Phillis is still on the fence. We don't know if it's Phillip yet. I am so dissapointed! At least we get to pick out and have more baby chicks. That was soooo fun! The 'boys' are crowing every morning, or trying to crow. There's one that even crows at night. My neighbors aren't compaining yet but I'm sure they may soon. I wish I had more eggs. We maybe get about 10 a week and we all love eggs. I can't believe you are getting 2 1/2 dozen! That is great! I'm jealous! My neighbor read the article in the paper about backyard chickens and is thinkin about raising meat birds. I may go in with him...not sure yet if it would be worth it.....what do you think?
I hope your chicken is ok after laying those big eggs! It is crazy that she lays big and then normal..Keep me posted. Went to the saturday tour this morning and am planning to go to the Bee house tour tomorrow. Do you have a garden too? Do you use your chicken drops in your compost? I have started composting the drops but don't know how long they have to hot compost before they are cool enough for dressing veggies....any ideas?
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