Recent content by chycknFun

i tried the davis spray idk if id works yet, as far as the damn nits i tried the coconut but them things are really stuborn, i plucked the feathers that had nits in them most were the baby feathers, the bird came from the farmers market ive i have gotten chickens from this "family farm" before...

I've seen a few articles on this... Aparently yes... My apartment chicken seems to know when I have cooked corn and when I've cut into the loves of my home made bread from the other room so I'd say...yep!

Thank you, understood, came from Farmers market, 3w ago they just said "she's kinda young" didn't give me a timeline on age

Any guesses at this point? Unsure of age. Too soon to tell? What a little character...

Buttercup! I love it!

I've tried putting the chicken diaper on a few, finally success, the chicken did the whole backwards walking ordeal, and seems super clumsy. Bedtime, she is trilling nothing new though I swear in between there is protest, she sounds like she is crying is sad and pitiful I might cave.

STL I'm a transplant from the east coast my birds are inside, I couldn't begin to imagine the fortress I'd have to build my chickens to stand up to this Missouri wind. Weather here really means business. I am so scared of the extreme wind here I don't even sleep most stormy nights.

I had a hen I was convinced had pica, if there was trash blown into the yard she was in heaven. Yup styrofoam was a fav, and she loved most of all the plastic markers that go into plants and flower pots. She knew if I saw her with them I was gonna snatch them away so she got super sneaky would...

comical!

Glad to know I'm not alone in having silkies that seem to want nothing to do with me. I got mine when they were 2mo old they're about 6mo now and I have hand fed them which they're okay with once they stop spinning in spazzy circles. I have tried, anyway, to hold them they act like they have to...

Layfaette sq STL

My Rhode island Red roo, square kicked a diving hawk in the chest and ran him out of the yard. My big boy can be a jerk sometimes but he'll by my boy forever.

my little love dovesI hope he (I think it's a he) doesn't crap on me. I got called into work they see me leaving at bedtime- confused.

So how long should eggs be avoided?