Recent content by ShotgunDog

Thank you for saying so--I'm so glad! :)

Welcome to BYC! I started my flock a year ago with 10 chicks as well. This is the place for all the information you want/need for raising chickens (and maybe even information you didn't know you needed!).

I have a twisted toe girl also. Her middle toe is bent on both feet, but more prominent on her left foot. My girl's name is Bentoh ("bent toe"). She is over a year old now and it has not affected her mobility at all yet. She roosts, scratches, pecks...just like all of her flock mates. A few...

Poor confused girl. I have seen one of my girls lay an egg on a low perch in front of the nesting boxes. I feel like she was being stubborn about which box she wanted to lay in and her preferred one was occupied. She waited too long, and boop--there it is! I just don't know--chickens are strage...

It is strange. After creating this post, my confused girl hasn't done it again since! So, I really have no idea. Maybe it was an odd winter time event. I am still getting the sandpaper shell egg. But not from the roost anymore.

I have a girl with bent toes--One of my 10 RIRs that I got last year looks just like the feet in your photos. Her middle toe on her left foot is at a near 90-degree angle, and the middle toe on her right is bent as well, just not as badly. Because I am so very creative with names (not!), we...

Welcome to BYC! This was my first "goto" site when I first started thinking about chickens last year. There's a lot of helpful folks here. Get that coop built ASAP--in about 5 weeks they/you will be ready for them to be in their big girl home! It goes by really fast.

Fantastic! :celebrate

I thought I saw that post before. He really is a cool looking rooster. Do you know what breed he is?

Good morning! He is a beautiful boy, for sure. I am in middle Georgia as well (Hancock County), but am not quite ready for a rooster to join my flock yet (I have a neighbor who keeps trying to give me one!). But the Georgia thread is here...

This sounds like what I was dealing with 2 days ago. I picked up my girl, took her to a sink to clean her off with warm water and soap. It turned out that she had a yolkless, softshell egg that was 'stuck'--she could not seem to push it out. With her pushing and my gentle coaxing, we were...

Most times I can't tell the difference in taste either. But we have several friends who swear my eggs are 'so much better' than store bought. Maybe they are being nice and appreciative of my girls' gifts, or maybe their palettes are just that much better than mine (either way, it is nice to...

Welcome to BYC. As a fairly newbie myself, I've found this forum to be my first 'goto' spot on anything fowl related. Lots of helpful folks here!

If you do try it, please post and let us know the results! I'm thinking of buying a FD, and was wondering about this myself. I use Kalmbach Layer mini-pellets for my girls. Since it is already a dry food, I wouldn't think freeze-drying would cause it to lose much in the way of weight due to...

Hello JM. Our 'house' is in Gwinnett County, but we have a weekend/hunting/country (and eventual retirement) 'home' in Hancock County, near Sparta, GA. Our chickens are, of course, in Hancock. After all, "Home is where your chickens are!" :)