Lily, Thanks. Good luck with your coop. This coop has now sidelined any spare time I have, but it is almost done (I keep seeing things I need to improve on,...
I am a new bantam chicken owner. I love silkies. Unfortunately I didn't receive any silkies... Maybe one might be a silkie. My local feed store is getting some...
You can, but you have to watch them. What I do if I end up hatching just a few over many days and don't want lots of brooder boxes with just a couple in them,...
Hi, I just placed an ad in the new classified section of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy site, for the Nankin Bantams I have for sale. This is a new...
I have three very cute and lively started bantams ready for a new home. They will not be large sized when full grown and are 100% full bred Americana/Araucana...
It's been several days now and my girls haven't laid a single egg, and I am getting a little worried. Also my rooster who is normally very sweet to his girls...
Michael, I purchased them as Araucana hatching eggs. Half hatched with tails and the other half without. I do not want to keep the ones with tails as I am ...
Tiz the season for chickens and most other domestics to moult out their ragged plumage and grow a new coat. When this process begins the growth of new feathers...
Hi David, I also live in Missouri and probably don't live all that far from you. I used to raise all kinds and colors of Araucanas.You need to save back a few...
Thanks for the info Dean. I was beginning to wonder if my girls were getting ready to kick the bucket or something equally worse. I have always kept their home...
Reb, Mine have slowed down too, but one small coop had almost nothing ever. Then I went to check on them one night and shined the flashlight in there and...
You know I was beginning to wonder myself if the chickens were laying and then eating their own eggs. How common is this, and does it only happen during the...
Reb, I have heard, once an egg eater, always an egg eater. I have slowed them down with golf balls and ceramic eggs so that they think twice before the peck...
This will be my first winter with bantams. I have them in a converted Emu shed which has the front covered about 3 ft up with wood and the rest of the front is...
Hi Dawn, I assume that it freezes water there in the winter and that you have ocassionally strong winter winds. It sounds as if your building is not insulated...
You might do something to the run too. What has worked for me (even though North Carolina is not as cold as lots of places) is to cover 2 or 3 sides of their...
We've been through 2 Connecticut winters with our girls (and 2 guys). We've had temps as low as -5 F. We have 2 coops - one is 12 X 8 and the other is 4 X 5....
oh yeah - and one more thing. I will cover the run with plastic sheeting or a tarp if the snow is heavy and the wind is bad. It is a covered run so I just...
Wow, you really do a lot to keep the cold out, but I guess you have to way up there. In my new coop that has 8 5X14 pens, I will close up the inside part...
Hi Fellowlisters, This is *not* me. Myself and my chickens are fine. I am not related to anyone in all of this. I lifted this from a small 5 member list. It...
FOR SALE: Wheat Straw available SE Arkansas Jim's Farm Stand has 2009 wheat straw, $5.50 bale, picked up in Monticello, Arkansas. We can deliver anywhere for...
well, winter seems to be coming early in PA! temps are getting into the 30s at night. Our young chickens are still roosting on top of the fence. It worries...
Hi All, This book has been on the internet for quite some time and I thought some of the material in this book could be helpful in understanding a lot of...
Dreaming, I have been swamped due to work and travel and then chickens. It also looks like some of the other experts must be swamped too. I personally do not...
Dean, Your e-mail was a very good read, but I just saw the topic and started to read without seeing who it was from. Part way through I thought, "wow, this is...
Hi Mark, I had book marked the free book from one of the anti NAIS sites. The author is a PHd and wasn't interested in reaping any profits from the sale of the...
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