Easiest ways to sex your chickens when they’re young
(My main purpose for writing this is to see how the articles work on this website. (And after buying a a whole box of silkie chicks they were all Roos. I want others to have better luck than I did) No,...
View ArticleLarge Brooder converts to chicken crate
This turned out to be a great brooder design with multiple uses. It can hold up to 40 small chicks, used as a small grow out, or 1 or 2 section crate for full grown chickens. I wanted to build a...
View Articleyummy Quinoa with peanuts and Coconut.
I love this recipe as a side dish. The Quinoa with this combination tastes rice like. Ingredients: 1 cup washed quinoa 1 3/4 water 1 cup peanuts 3/4 cup coconut flakes 1 lime coconut oil (variation:...
View ArticleAzure x BCM.
Azure x Black Copper Maran. Will they still create a nice olive laying coloured offspring ?
View ArticleFacts and Funfacts of chickens
Chickens with blue or purple-ish combs indicate that they are sick,Roosters when they are healthy and mature have bright red combs A chickens favourit foods include oatmeal,mealworms,watermelon and...
View ArticleEaster egger?
Trying to figure out if my girl is an Easter egger? Anyone know? I think her eggs are pale green.
View ArticleI think I blew it. Now what?
I have an incubator full of welsh harlequin eggs. This is my second time incubating. First time was with muscovys and it was a miserable failure. I decided to try again and try not to worry too much. I...
View ArticleMolt or something else?
My Rooster seems to be missing neck and lower back feathers. He is in a coop with 7 other hens. They are not quite a year old yet. My Rooster is a real Bastard so I can not get close to really check...
View ArticleSexing button quail
Hi! I need help sexing some of my 6 week old button quail. I can tell the roosters with the bibs easily, but I have these blue black ones without bibs. They had reddish feathers, but hard to tell if...
View ArticleOpen air coop build with pictures
My husband (with my smallish assistance!) is in the middle of building our open air chicken coop. It's going to be 10x16, raised off the ground on concrete blocks in the event we want to move it....
View ArticleThe scoop on a Rubbermaid Big Max coop
My wife has talked about getting chickens for eggs for some time. After over 30 years of marriage, I understand that means I'm getting chickens! (And I'm ok with that) In preparation, I've been lurking...
View ArticleM-H-Fielding's flock
Hi, everyone! In this article I will be telling about my flock and coop. I will start by saying that I have no idea how many chickens I have, even though I know all their names. That sounds like a...
View ArticleIs my chicken depressed?
My hen 1/2 year old Sussex hen has been quarantining herself from the other hens she won’t except her favourite treat doesn’t run around she does more of a slow walk she just sits there in a corner. We...
View ArticleTangy Egg Salad
Ingredients 5 eggs 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish 1 teaspoon steak sauce ¼ teaspoon paprika ¼ teaspoon dried dill weed salt and ground black...
View ArticleDrake Problems 🙄😒
I got a male and female Pekin in May last year. I ended up with a male Buff and a male Khaki Campbell in July last year. I know that is too many males to one female, but I didn't know what any of them...
View ArticleThe Fluffy Butt Hutt
The Fluffy Butt Hut I really dreamed of my husband building or buying half shed/half coop much similar to the layout of Lisa Steele’s layout. However, my husband had other plans and gave all the space...
View ArticleLayer feed
I have 5 pullets turning 18 weeks next week and have not laid their first egg yet. (I have 6, but 1 little lady has been laying for 4 days now.) I have 3 golden comets and 3 rhode island reds. My...
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