Gender
Female
Activity Feed
"I agree with Chris. I would bet on the chicken unless your chickens are babies. It's neat that you got to see a roadrunner at your house. I haven't seen one in the middle of the city in 20 years. One of my chickens ate a baby gecko this morning, it…"
"That does make sense - but it seems unnatural to those of use who have 'only' ever purchased refrigerated eggs from a store. :) This will take some learning and getting used to! :) Thank you for the comments and advice."
"I must have 100s, maybe even 1000s of crickets in the coop at night (ooh!), also all kinds of other bugs... By the time they come out , the chickens are already in their hen house. I have even gone out there with my sons w/ a flashlight and caught…"
"I thought I read up on chickens enough, but I certainly missed some of this stuff.... interesting about the mice and birds! wow... ok - so here's one for ya. I live in a residential neighborhood with brick walls, so there are very few predetors…"
"mine even kill birds that get into thier food and eat on them"
"It's good for them. I caught my chickens chasing each other over a tiny newborn bunny they had killed. They must have scratched it right out of its den. Sad, but an excellent fresh protein source. They pretty much picked it clean."
"I can relate, one of our girls ate one the other day! It was a big one too. They are omnivores :)"
"I'm learning something new every day! :) Wow!"
"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…"
"Lizards are good for them! Full of protein."
"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,…"
"Here is Sallys first egg. I was so exicted!sallyegg.jpg"
"Great! I didn't want them to go to waste. Thank you."
"i have been told they are ok and I don't collect eggs until the end of the day. My whole family has been eating them for weeks."
Comments
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 growing all funky and LONG and I have to trim them with wire cutters every 2wks! It is the most unpleasant thing I've ever had to do. So, I guess a little is ok, but my bunny was eating it daily and someone told me it's probably all the protein and possibly some sort of hormone in the lay feed that caused her teeth to grow haywire. One tooth curved up and started to grow into her lip! I felt so bad because I hadn't even noticed her teeth till one day she nuzzled my hand and I felt something hard and sharp and it was her tooth! So I just thought I'd tell you my experience. Your rabbit is very pretty by the way. Good luck with your chickens in this heat!
I came home a week ago to one hen suffering from heat exhaustion. I brought her into a bathroom in a cage and stuck her in the sink and gave her a cool bath then let her rest inside. We went out and bought ice blocks from water and ice to keep the coop cool while we installed a mister system we picked up from Lowes for about $30. It did the trick as I have it on one side lengthwise in the coop and the other side stays completly dry. I had shown your coop to my husband who designed a roof like yours and also made a matching laying box! The laying box and water are one the 'wet' side. The laying box has a little corregated roof on it so it stays cool and dry inside and the two girls that lay are still laying! I have a hutch and the food on the dry side and in the hutch I have 5 more babies and a long leg from england. She's about the size of a very large dove. So now I have two older girls that are laying, two pullets, one is a frizzle top silver polish bantam and the other is off a neighbors farm. neither have layed anything yet. Then in the hutch in the coop with the long leg, I have 5 4 week old farm chicks. I have no idea if they are girls or boys yet. I just got rid of 3 roosters that I raised from the farm and went out and got 3 new baby chicks that we have in a pseudo incubator in the house. We took a trip this weekend to C&C hatchery way out south east and got a Silky/Cochen mix and a Wyndonette (sp) along with the long leg (not sure of the proper name yet). I think both the baby chicks have upper respitory problems and we are treating with some medicine in the water we got from the feed store. So the last little baby chick is an Americauna that looks like a chipmonk with wings! She is so cute and cost only $2 from the feed store! We paid way too much for the exotics at C&C and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I feel terrible we got carried away when we were there. Now in hindsight, we feel that the entire pen we got our chicks from most likely were getting sick. They have no refund policy or trade in if you get boys... So, we have lots of different ages and I think I'll end up with about 8-9 girls total at different ages, laying different sizes of eggs... it's crazy! One other thing on keeping the coop cool; we have several fans that blow around the mist and they seem to like it. I hope this helps. How are your girls doing?
The comb will be cut out from the night stand intact and transplanted into wooden frames held in by wire. Then placed into a standard hive box. After a couple months the bees will have multiplied and gathered more nectar and formed more comb to fill with nectar being made into honey. After the frame cells are full I'll take out those frames and extract the ripe honey with a centrifuge.
Thanks for asking.
charlie