We have a really bad mosquito problem in our backyard. So bad that, when we go out, my wife and I look like Charlie Brown's friend Pigpen...but instead of dirt it's a cloud of mosquitoes. While I am fine with dousing myself in Off for extended visits to the coop or backyard, I hate coming back...
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My wife and I have a Buff Orpinton of unknown age that is super social. When she came to us she had obviously been around humans a lot and wasn't scared of us at all. For example, a couple of weeks ago she hopped right into my...
I've spent the better part of three days sifting through a ton of the information in these forums, but I couldn't find exactly the information I was looking for. Admittedly, I may have just missed it. (As an aside, thank goodness for you people. This site has helped me and my wife out with our...
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So, to keep our laying Buff Orpington company we bought a Cochin Bantam and a Black Sex-link. We've got them separated for now for acclimation and quarantine reasons, but I am still freaking out.
Henrietta, our Orpington, has always been relatively mild-mannered, but now she...
So....my wife and I were adopted by a chicken.
About three days after we got married, I came home from work to find a Buff Orpington hanging out in our back yard.
While our next door neighbors canvased the neighborhood asking if anyone had lost a chicken, we fed and watched out for her...