April 22,2011
Today I noticed my Mommy hens were in the bottom nesting box. They have been on eggs for 21 or so days. I have my nesting box set up 3 boxes high and am able to get my eggs from the other side of the coop. The hens all laid their eggs in the upper box which is about 3 feet or so up...
March 16, 2011
I have had a few experiences in the past year with my chickens. I have 3 free roamers that I let run around my barn. All my others are in a really nice coop my husband made. Last summer my sweet little Rooster "Rocky" dissappeared out of the blue. About a week or so later my...
Last night the geese started to scream and they sleep under my bedroom window so I knew something was up as they are usually very quite. So I got up and turned on all my motion detecter lights and sure enough there was a fox after them.....I watched them all night until the wee hours....I...
My Chinese Geese are about 7 months old and I have gotten about 15 eggs from my female so far. I noticed that she buries them in the bottom of the hay that is in her laying crate......They are yummy~!!! I did notice my male trying to breed her a week ago I just think they are not interested in...
OMG Much to my surprise I have Fall Babies. I tried to get a photo with all of them in it but that was impossible. I just pulled them all out of the coop and put them in a nice big clean stall.
Well I spoil mine rotten to the extent of shopping their friuts and veggies up then hand feed alot of them. They love corn! And I have been lucky that our local supermarket lets me take the corn husk Bags. There is always corn in them and my geese love the husks as do my horses. They also like...
Congrats I also just found 18 babies 2 days ago.......my chickens won't stop. This is my second batch of babies this summer....18 of them blew my mind!!!
2 days ago I went out to 18 new baby chicks.....I have 2 hens that hatched them in the big coop. Mean while I have my hen Jenny that is definitely at the bottom of the pecking order. She gets picked on terribly and still has a limp from a month ago. I have put her cage in an empty stall and she...
Hi All,
Well it is going on 5 weeks that my Jenny hurt her leg/foot. She has no puncture wounds and no swelling When this first happened she was holding her foot up and hop on one leg. I isolated her like suggested but after a few weeks I felt awful. Besides that she was jumping up and using her...
Just wanted to let you know that I had to pin my Gander to the ground yesterday. I hope I did it right. He was coming after me so I grabbed his neck and scooped him up tightly against me. Then I flipped him over on his back and pinned him to the ground for about a minute. He was silent and the...
Can anyone share with me about how long her recovery will be? She did lay me her first egg in weeks yesterday......but she is still holding that foot up and hopping. I am nervous that she will not get better.....what am I doing wrong? What else could it be like if she dislocated her leg can I...
Hi Everyone,
I live in Maine and it has been raining for 3 days. It is very damp and the temp is in the high 60's and at night I have no idea. My geese are outside they have a big pool and they have a nice shelter my husband made them. I also leave my Barn door open to the tack room in case they...
Hi Everyone,
Well it has been just about 2 weeks ( but it feels like years ) and my Jenny is still favoring her leg. I put her in her cage, to keep her from using it so it will heal. She has been confined for 5 days now as suggested.
She has access to everything she needs. BUT she has not laid...