Recent content by SueT

Welcome to BYC! Nice looking chicks....definitely the one with the red comb is a boy. The others may all be girls...

Ok then!! Welcome back!!

Where do you live? You've been a member for a long time!!!

I have 4 bantam EE's almost a year old, and one has been such a stubborn broody that I gave her one egg to hatch. It is one of the Sprite eggs (Spitzhauben-Sebright cross) and thus the chick will be 3/4 Spitzhauben. I am looking forward to seeing what it looks like. All the Sprites look just...

Regardless of what their HOA's may say! This is going to ruffle some feathers, for sure! 😛

I have 13 chickens, the oldest are 6, 7, and 8 yrs, and still laying. I do not want more but I have my 4 EE bantams that are just 1 yr old, so I'm in it for a while. And one of those little EE girls was proving to be such a stubborn broody, I have given her 1 egg to hatch (from the...

Or is she backing out?

Enter it in the caption contest submission thread!!!

Baby chicks imprint on the first thing they see--this one has imprinted on an IPhone

Hi Mom, here I am!

There's a good chance she was already dying when you tried to save her. Don't blame yourself, you tried to help. And you cared. It is hard to lose animals, sometimes just as hard as losing people. I just read a book called Talking with the Animals, by Patty Summers, who is a psychic and...

When I have a broody that I don't want to hatch eggs, I put her in broody jail. It's a wire bottom cage which is in our basement. I learned about this here on BYC, many use this method. It takes 2-3 days/nights to break the broodiness. Then she goes back to normal.

Broody hens don't usually lay eggs at all. They may not be hers. Are you sure she is broody? The Buff Orpington I had laid very light eggs. How old is she? I currently have a Sussex who is 8 yrs old and her eggs have become progressively lighter as she ages. They were light brown and are...

Each year we welcome random thistles that plant themselves in our yard. They are exotic, wildly beautiful, require no care, and they are butterfly magnets!