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We gave our big long legged boy a taste of raisin bread for the first time tonight. It was a small taste and he got upset that he only got a tiny bit while ma held on to the rest of the slice. He had just eaten a whole slice of whole wheat for a bedtime snack. He still eats a lot of...

I've got Legs in my chair with me looking at all the pretty hens on BYC. He's acting like a teenager with a Playboy magazine.

We have an addition on our house for activities such as plant starting and brooding. We set up a table with dog kennels to use for two of our pets that we just don't dare risk losing them to a predator of any kind. I'm sure if we allowed it those two would find our bed and climb in. The pullet...

I think he is the most intelligent chicken I've ever had. He starts getting excited as we come in the front door stretching his long neck out looking to find his treat. He anticipates even going to his kennel that is a better place to sleep that his outdoor coop is. He never fusses about being...

Tonight when I brought him in for the night I stopped and set him down in my chair. He stayed there until I got back with his bedtime snack. Then sat in my lap for awhile before I took him to his kennel for the night. I've never had a rooster or hen like him before.

He is a very special boy. He spends a lot of time in my lap in the evenings. He will sit unrestrained the whole time just taking in his surroundings with no attempt to leave my lap at all.

I didn't let Legs stay in his coop outside tonight with a bad storm expected for several hours starting about 11pm. He is safely in a kennel in the sun room. He sat in my lap for about half an hour after eating a slice of bread and a boiled egg. That is his version of an egg sandwich. I'm amazed...

Hope you find him soon. I'm missing a beloved pet rooster from a couple of weeks back. I think a fox was waiting for him when he came down off of his night in a high up coop. Now I shut the door on Legs to protect him at all costs. He stays in his coop if we have to be gone. I just can't cope...

I let my big boy (teenager) Legs sit in my lap while the great grand kids fed him this morning. He was a perfect gentleman for them as he always is. Within about 2-3 months were he walks the other roosters will not go. Even if it is unintentional when he turns around quick and another rooster...

Once in a while I get mine a bag of 22% layer mini pellets. I think there is less waste with the pellets and would love to keep them on the pellets. I feel it is better on the roosters though to use starter/grower and oyster shell on the side. I have sold most of my older hens and am replacing...

I turned the pen of bachelor roosters out before we started making chore rounds to the coops. They followed hoping for a chance to sneak in an open coop door to where there were girls being guarded by only one rooster... It was a useless effort on their part.

I use pine needles and they don't mind them at all. Two of my nest boxes are roll outs with astro turf. The girls there didn't mind them either.

It's a very rainy day today so the girls are bored inside their spacious coops. They have several times more square feet than what is recommended and are happy. The rooster coop is small and is for roosting only. They will get turned out when the rain stops around 1pm I think and that is soon.

I'm been busy moving new hatches to the first stage brooder this evening and rendering aid to a few who stopped hatching. A little coconut oil save the day for 4 or 5. By morning there may be some more that need to have help.

Ma and I managed to move 3 of 6 Delaware hens back in with Bandit. Bandit is the Delaware Boy we nursed back to good health a while back. He's been in a coop all alone for awhile. He's looking really good and he sure was glad to the the girls. The other 3 we will take off of the roost tonight...

On important thing I did today also is I caught the last remaining at large rooster. He is now confined to quarters. Instead of fencing each garden plot I'm going to do runs that will make big hoop houses bigger. They will have the benefit of large coops that protect from bad weather and a run...

The fig trees died so we will have to make do with feathers.

Just so you know neither one of us owns a swim suit.

We did a Corrid treatment for the 3 youngest broods. From a week old to about 3 months old. About the time we got that done the heavy rains came and we got wet.

We might build an outdoor sauna room with orchids and windows with mirrors that we can see through and watch the chickens through them. We can see them but they can't see us. I could install a shower and a Jacuzzi. :)